What Once Was Mine

Twisted Tales Series

Author: Liz Braswell

Book 12 in the Twisted Tales series

Pages: 496

Published: 2021

Age: 12+

What if Rapunzel's mother drank a potion from the wrong flower?

Desperate to save the life of their queen and her unborn child, the good citizens of the kingdom comb the land for the all-healing Sundrop flower to cure her... but someone mistakenly picks the blossom of the Moondrop instead. This shimmering flower heals the queen and she delivers a healthy baby girl―with hair as silver and gray as the moon. But with her mysterious hair comes dangerous magical powers: the power to hurt, not heal. For the safety of the kingdom, Rapunzel is locked away in a tower and put under the care of the powerful goodwife, Mother Gothel.

For eighteen years Rapunzel stays imprisoned in her tower, knowing she must protect everyone from her magical hair. When she finally decides to leave the only home she's ever known―to see the floating lights that appear on her birthday―she gets caught up in an unexpected adventure with two thieves: a would-be outlaw named Gina, and Flynn Rider, a rogue on the run. Before she can reach her happy ending, Rapunzel learns that there is far more to her story, and her magical hair, and her future than she ever knew.

About the Twisted Tales Series

Reading age: 12+ years

Welcome to a new YA series that reimagines classic Disney stories in surprising new ways. Each book asks the question: What if one key moment from a familiar Disney film was changed? These dark and daring versions of classic fairytales offer a simple twist: What if someone other than Aladdin found the genie's magic lamp? Or what if the sleeping beauty never woke up? What is Belle's mother was actually the one to curse the beast? What happens next? Readers will never again look at these stories in quite the same way...