Fairy Tales

Is there a damsel valiant enough to risk the king’s wrath and save the knight prince?

Most fairy tales begin with once upon a time, in a land far away. However, our story begins in the land of Cariandell and in a time of brave knights rescuing damsels in distress. But it is our valiant knight who finds himself in need of rescuing. Is there a damsel valiant enough to risk the king’s wrath and save him?

A new fairy tale. Not a retelling, although there is the tiniest nod to Robin Hood in here, I wrote a new short fairy tale story for you to enjoy.

Can one find hope when the only way to become human again means betraying the one you love?

Princess Aderyn has no choice but to marry a prince from the Cariandell Kingdom if she wants to save her own dying kingdom. Happiness has eluded her for too long, and the prospect of marrying fills her with dread. Her only hope is that Prince Sterling can help her find the silver needed to restore Azurluna Kingdom. But when she rejects his younger half-brothers as suitors, the wicked queen ensures that Aderyn is turned into a blue bird until she agrees to marry one of her sons.

The last time Prince Sterling felt loved was at the age of five, before his mother died. His cruel stepmother and half-brothers have made him a silent and broken man, whom the people regard as a simpleton. He longs for someone to love him but no longer believes he is worthy. When he encounters the princess, hope flickers to life. Then his stepmother does the unthinkable to Aderyn, and he vows to do whatever it takes to restore her to human form, even if it means living without her.

Will they ever be together, or will Aderyn be forced to marry one of Sterling’s brothers to regain her humanity? Will Sterling survive his stepmother’s scheme to kill him?

A Faithful Hope, a retelling of The Blue Bird, includes tropes like Emotional Scars, He Falls First, and Friends to Lovers. This is book 1 in the Virtuous Crowns series.
It was originally published as part of the “Hope Ever After” series.

What happens when the secret keeping her alive is the very thing he has sworn to destroy?

Rosalynn has carried her secret in silence for ten years. By day she lives an ordinary life hidden in the forest. By night, she is something else entirely—a rare healing rose. She knows the rules, she knows the cost of breaking them, and she has made her peace with a quiet, hidden life. Then the brooding new king disrupts everything.

With a heart made of iron and a bitterness that consumes him, King Liam returns to claim his father’s throne because duty demanded it, not because he wanted to. He has no interest in the woman who keeps appearing at the edges of his life, or in the way the sight of her threatens to undo nearly a lifetime of shutting the world out. He has survived this long by feeling nothing and he intends to keep it that way—until the day his obsession with vengeance collides with her secret, and he is forced to choose between the man he has been and the man he could become.

When the truth between them finally surfaces, will Rosalynn trust the man whose shadows once felt like her greatest threat? Can Liam open his heart before his own darkness costs them everything?

A Healing Love, a retelling of Beauty and the Beast and Swan Lake, is a clean no spice romance, with tropes like Grumpy/Sunshine, Secret Identity, and Love Heals All Wounds.