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Indexing by: Seanan McGuire
Fiction: Mystery, Fantasy, E-book
E-Book Count:8
Book Count:10

Imagine a world where fairy tales are true, but not the Disney version, the scary, dangerous, Grimm version.  And there isn't just a single story of Snow White, or Cinderella,  or Sleeping Beauty, but they are archetypes where many people with key elements of the story in their life might become one of those Characters, acting out the story against their will and not even necessarily knowing what is happening until it is too late.  Dad a widower who remarries a women with a couple of daughters?  You might end up Cinderella. 
Now imagine a government group that is in charge of stopping or containing all the evil that these stories cause.  And a team within that government group that is lead by an inactive Snow White (who as a daughter of a Sleeping Beauty is freakishly pale with hair as black as possible and bright red lips, which in real life is a lot scarier then pretty, ) with a halted evil step-sister, a cobbler (as in the shoemaker and the elves, he being the elf of the story) and a normal person who learned all this is real when his brother died do to a sleeping beauty that wasn't caught in time.  (as being in a coma with out medical aid in getting water and nutrients in will do to a human after a few days.)   
In this first book of the series they start out on a case that dispatch called in as a Snow White (the book gets it's title from a real index of fairy tales and so each type has a number much like a real life police force would call crimes by their number of the crime in the books.) When they get there they start to deal with the case as such, because they also agree that she looks like a snow white. (Some people who's parents are already connected with a tale will always look like the way a fairy tale character does,  but many take on the characteristics both physically and  mentally when their story is activated.)   But after they follow her to a large hospital that they couldn't evacuate when they got the call, they find out that she is in fact a sleeping beauty, with a way of transmitting the sleeping of people around her that is very strong.    
This is just the first of many cases that they end up getting where the story is messed with, changed, or a mix up of more then one story.  So they have to find out who is doing this, why, and how they can stop them before the whole world turns into the worst part of every fairy tale.