Cinderella is the lowest of the low in Dracula Castle—a human blood slave who scrubs floors and takes the blame. When the chief lady Marguerite executes her for a cracked porcelain cup, she wakes seconds earlier, reborn with a strange gift: she can hear the inner thoughts of every vampire infant in the castle.
That gift turns out to be a weapon. The pure-blood princess won't stop crying, and everyone from the chief lady to foreign spies wants Cinderella to take the fall. Instead, she follows the babies' thoughts to silver poison in the milk, toxic verbena in the nursery, and a wolf queen's plot to harvest a prince's heart. Each rescue earns her a powerful ally, and each ally builds her a fortress inside the castle that once owned her. But the real threat isn't the poison—it's the traitor wearing a friendly face.
