Maggie never saw the boys again after that day. It wasn’t her story, and neither is this one, but she never forgot the moment when the universe allowed her to brush her fingertips along the spider-lace edges of a true-blue fairy tale. Boys vanishing into the woods, then magically reappearing after everyone thought they were dead…if that’s not a fairy-tale ending, what is? It actually wasn’t a fairy-tale ending. It was, in fact, only the beginning.
