About the book: year / Seventeen-year-old Alice Grimm is a descendant of the Brothers Grimm, the only one in the whole world who can discover the location of fairy-tale characters who even unaware of who they really are. She heads to Venice, where archaeologists discover the 800-year-old skeleton of a witch, discovered in the city that once invented the art of glass blowing. The corpse is surrounded by seventeen glass slippers, meaning it could have belonged to the real Cinderella. With the help of Loki, the Dream Hunter who has the ability to enter the dreams of immortals, the two trace the chain of events that lead to the shocking details of the birth of the Real Cinderella.