Prologue

Virgil Blake moves to Gainesville, Florida at the age of 16 with his father and twin sister after his mother's death. He doesn't believe in a 'happily, ever after'. At least not for himself. Virgil thinks it is stupid because he's seen for himself that not even his parents got to have one, even though they always told him they would while he was a child.

He moves to Florida with the opinion that fairy-tales are stupid - that or he fears them - and that he will never have a 'happily, ever after'. But how wrong he is proven when he bumps into Roman Garcia, Patton Maine, and Logan Connors. He gets whirled up in his very own - down to earth - fairy-tale.