Enjoy five new fairy tales in this collection by Ariele Sieling. Written in the same style as Grimm's fairy tales, each story seeks to explore modern values in the context of an eccentric, omniscient story filled with wild animals, kings and queens, magic, and more. In The Bald Princess, meet Elspeth, who is in search of a hair piece that will do justice to her eventual role as queen. In The Twilight Wood, meet Eloita, a young guard tasked with protecting a prince who is determined to understand a powerful forest that kills all who enter it. In The Guilt of the Enchantress, meet Liaandra, a powerful battle mage who makes a terrible mistake that changes the course of her life forever. In The Wolf Princess, meet Sable, cursed as a child to run with the woods, but who has embraced her new identity with gusto—until her parents start searching for her in earnest. In The Milkmaid and the Death Weed, meet Fiora, a young milkmaid who sets out to seek her fortune, only to discover that everything she touches dies. This book is the first in a series of anthologies filled with brand-new engaging and heart-warming fairy tales.
Author
Ariele Sieling is a Pennsylvania-based writer who enjoys books, cats, and trees. Her first love, however, is science fiction and she has three series in the genre: post-apocalyptic monsters in Land of Szornyek; soft science fiction series, The Sagittan Chronicles; and scifi fairytale retellings in Rove City. She has also had numerous short stories published in a variety of anthologies and magazines and is the author of children's books series Rutherford the Unicorn Sheep, and a series of books for authors called Writers Reach. She lives with her spouse, enormous Great Pyrenees dog, and two cats.
