“Deep in the woods, past the gravel road and the frozen fields, there is a little house where the light still burns.
            Millie has always known what a mother should be. Grandmother showed her — in the warmth of the wood-fired kitchen, in the stories read aloud from Grimm’s fairy tales, in the scarlet cap knitted just for her Little Red Cap. But Grandmother is gone, and the world outside the gingerbread house has never been kind.

            Now Millie works as a cleaning lady at a daycare center, invisible to everyone. When she sees baby Grace — neglected, bruised, wrapped in a dirty blanket by a mother who doesn’t deserve her — she knows she has found her quest. She will rescue the princess. She will give this child the life she herself was never given.

            But the deeper Millie travels into the dark forest of her own delusions, the harder it becomes to tell the fairy tale from the truth — and the further she gets from any hope of finding her way home.”