The Velvet Messenger

Best-selling illustrator Megan Hess shines in this astonishing new fairytale about the daughter of a locksmith, who finds a strange key belonging to the queen. Violet lives in the wintry forest with her mother, a renowned locksmith. Her mother taught her many things, but the two most important were how to pick a lock in an emergency, and to always trust your instincts – and when Violet finds a lost key belonging to the Queen, she’ll need to do both if she wants to survive her visit to the Palace... A mysterious, heartwarming fairy tale about trusting your gut. The second thrilling picture book in Megan Hess's Young Queens Collection, a series of original fairytales about young girls coming into their own power. Every girl has a queen inside!