This is my first time joining the contest. Reading the prompts, this one stuck out to me. I hope you like it while I write this and update my other books as well. I changed the characters' names for the retelling. I hope you like it, enjoy!

Prompt #36: "fairytales are real," and there couldn't be anything worse.

Prompt #48: The curse of magic is that for every reward, there is a great loss. For every spell that goes right, there is something else- in the real, natural world- that goes terribly wrong. Nature loves its balance. (main prompt)

Blurb:

Princess Addyson of the Angium finds herself in trouble. On the night of the ball her Father King Roland, wound up dead. Her stepmother Andrea, witnessed the scene. Her stepsisters, Amanda and Cassandra, blame her for his demise. She's exiled from her own kingdom as a criminal. The magic from the kingdom is gone, gray and rotten. Andrea has taken over, leaving her in charge. There's only one way to fix this. With a vial of blood she collected, it could be a way to bring him back and save the kingdom.