The Backward Fairy Tales series reimagines classic fairy tales from unexpected angles, beginning with a failed royal wedding when a sinister sorcerer's curse erases Roselyn's memories at the altar. Refusing to marry a stranger she can no longer remember, she flees into the haunted Mistbrooke Forest, where she finds an unlikely guide in the brooding Cedrick—a man whose own painful past makes him the last person who should be falling for a princess. The second book follows Marigold, a young woman whose life is saved by a handsome merman when a ransom attempt goes catastrophically wrong, binding their fates together through ancient sea magic.

Roselyn is a spirited young woman discovering her own identity in the absence of her memories, whose genuine compassion extends even to those who seem undeserving. Cedrick is a brooding, solitary man hollowed by his past who finds himself awakened by someone who sees him without any preconceptions. In Book 2, Marigold is a determined young woman carrying the weight of estranged family alongside a forced magical bond, while Ryken the merman is a sweetly earnest alpha learning to navigate a world that makes no sense to him.

Across two books, the series builds a shared world of kingdoms, magic systems, and political tensions while each novel tells a complete, standalone romance inspired by a different fairy tale. Book 1 draws on Rapunzel and Alice in Wonderland; Book 2 inverts The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast. Both stories explore themes of identity, sacrifice, and learning to trust after loss, with young protagonists who mature visibly across their own arcs even as the world's broader conflicts simmer in the background.