The Red Woods (The Story Keeper Series) by Samantha Jayne Young

What if every fairy tale was real… and every one of them was slowly falling apart? When forty-five-year-old Francesca Holloway discovers a hidden room beneath an old bookshop, she finds an ancient book unlike anything she has ever seen. Its pages refuse to stay blank. Its illustrations move. And before she can escape, the story reaches out and pulls her inside. She awakens in the Red Woods. There, Little Red Riding Hood is no longer a tale but a living world trapped in an endless cycle. The Wolf remembers dying thousands of times. Grandmother guards secrets older than the forest itself. The Huntsman is beginning to remember a past that should no longer exist. Worst of all, the stories themselves are changing. Pages are disappearing. Memories are fading. Characters are forgetting who they are. Read more