Mirabelle is about to turn 16, and her guardians are getting ready to celebrate. They’re making cake, and asking her about her preferences for the party. But though Mirabelle is enthusiastic about it, she doesn’t really mean any of it. In fact, she’s planning on leaving her home and run away to Beau Rivage, the place where she was born and where her parents died in a horrible fire the night of her christening. She’s always been forbidden to go, but she will not be denied this time.
Running away, she arrives in Beau Rivage late and spends most of her night in a dingy coffee shop. She’s accosted by a guy with blue spiked hair, who introduces himself as Blue. Accompanied by Freddy, he tries to chase him away from the coffee shop and the casino in which it is located. Mira runs again, only to hide deeper in the casino, where she is discovered by Felix, the casino’s young owner.
Immediately smitten by Felix, Mira begins to look for her parents’ grave, but keeps encountering Blue, who reveals he is Felix’s brother. Both of them are part of a world Mira begins to catch glimpses of: the world of half-fairies. Beau Rivage is home to most of the fairy folks, and all of them are cursed to either be heroes or villains. And, like Mira, they all share a tattoo in their lower back that identifies their curse. Mira’s is Sleeping Beauty; Blue and Felix, romantics; Freddy is an honor-bound prince who will awaken Sleeping Beauty.
As the veil that separates the two is open, Mira finds herself at the center of intersecting curses. Falling for Felix, but strangely attracted to Blue despite his brashness and his pushing away. Can she escape her fate, or is she destined to be part of a fairy tale?
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