Fairy Girl

From the author of the phenomenally successful, New York Times best-selling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency mystery series, comes this spellbinding collection of African folktales from Zimbabwe and Botswana.

Princess Giselle is excited to be leading her first royal delegation—until everything goes wrong before they even reach their destination. With her rank and authority stripped away and her people scattered, she’s left with nothing but a gaggle of geese. Giselle is determined to prove herself a true princess—in action as well as in name. But to do so she must uncover a conspiracy that threatens far more than her own future. With her life in danger and only a talking horse and an irritable goose boy at her side, she needs assistance.

Ciera’s the best fairy godmother in all the land… …but she’s hiding a secret. Not only is she pregnant, but she’s magically pregnant with a human child. Humans are not allowed in the fairy realm. Period. That includes half-fairy/half-human babies. The only solution is to give the baby to its father before the Fairy Council finds out her secret. Finding the father will be easy. How many men named John could possibly live in a little town called Chicago? Scroll up and 1-click this romantic paranormal fairy tale now! (Also available for free through Kindle Unlimited) Other books in ...

Poet, writer, and Instagram sensation Nikita Gill returns with a collection of fairytales poetically retold for a new generation of women. Traditional fairytales are rife with cliches and gender stereotypes: Beautiful, silent princesses; ugly, jealous, and bitter villainesses; girls who need rescuing; and men who take all the glory. But in this rousing new prose and poetry collection, Nikita Gill gives Once Upon a Time a much-needed modern makeover.

September is a girl who longs for adventure. When she is invited to Fairyland by a Green Wind and a Leopard, well, of course she accepts. (Mightn’t you?) But Fairyland is in turmoil, and it will take one 12-year-old girl, a book-loving dragon, and a strange and almost human boy named Saturday to vanquish an evil Marquess and restore order.

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September has been crowned queen of Fairyland, but the kingdom is in chaos. The magic of a dodo egg has brought every king, queen, and marquess of Fairyland back to life, all with claims to the throne and their own plots and histories. In order to make sense of it all, and to save their friend from a job she doesn't want, A-Through-L and Saturday devise a Royal Race, a Monarchical Marathon, in which every would-be ruler will chase the Stoat of Arms across the nation, and the first to seize the poor beast will be crowned.

Abbi is looking for a summer away from her demanding younger siblings. Any escape will do. Playing housekeeper for the spoiled son of one of her stepfather’s business associates? Piece of cake. John West is country music royalty with a list of hits a mile long. His face is instantly recognizable around the globe. Except to his new housekeeper. He's seeking solitude. She just wants a little peace and quiet. A summer escape becomes an unforgettable summer as two worlds collide.

Snow and Rose didn't know they were in a fairytale. People never do.... Once, they lived in a big house with spectacular gardens and an army of servants. Once, they had a father and mother who loved them more than the sun and moon. But that was before their father disappeared into the woods and their mother disappeared into sorrow. This is the story of two sisters and the enchanted woods that have been waiting for them to break a set of terrible spells.

Ronja, die Tochter des Räuberhauptmanns Mattis, wächst mitten im Wald auf - zwischen Räubern, Graugnomen und Wilddruden. Eines Tages trifft sie auf Birk, den Räubersohn aus der verfeindeten Sippe von Borka. Trotz aller Umstände freunden sich die Kinder an. Sehr zum Missfallen der beiden Familien... Eine märchenhafte Geschichte voller Fantasie, und ein Plädoyer gegen Vorurteile und Ungerechtigkeit.

Welcome to the Sorrows—where nightmares bleed into reality, and nothing is what it seems. Maddie Monroe is twenty-two, stuck slinging coffee in a graveyard-shift diner and clinging to dreams of escape. But when she defends a scarred, cryptic stranger from a brutal attack, her life is ripped apart—and hurled into another world. The Sorrows is not a place for the weak. It's a realm of twisted magic, broken souls, and creeping madness. Maddie has no map, no allies—except for a band of misfits who are each more dangerous than they appear: – a disgraced royal advisor haunted by his past ...

The sides have been chosen and the battle lines drawn. Echo awakened the Firebird. Now she is the only one with the power to face the darkness she unwittingly unleashed...right into the waiting hands of Tanith, the new Dragon Prince. Tanith has one goal in mind: destroy her enemies, raze their lands, and reign supreme in a new era where the Drakharin are almighty and the Avicen are nothing but a memory.

Diva Chronicles - The Gates Lia learns what it is to be the Lightbringer and Alchemist to her realm as she and Ze travel through their beloved Diva's domain. Lia befriends kelpies, dragons, elves, and humans! She almost burns herself out battling a huge demon hiding in the dwarves caverns in Iceland. Rad and Evie visit Fae so Evie can Sing for Diva Gloriana's court. They choose to stay longer . . .What happens when you break a promise to the Fae Folk? When Evie goes missing, kidnapped by demons, Lia reaches out to Stellar Ranch to help Lucy Prophet find Evie. Lia and Lucy meet the Aos Si - ...

When a princess' commoner true love is kidnapped to coerce her into a political marriage, she doesn't give in - she goes to rescue him. When her warrior father, King Sendoa, mysteriously dies, Princess Amarande of Ardenia is given what would hardly be considered a choice: Marry a stranger at 16 or lose control of her family's crown. But Amarande was raised to be a warrior - not a sacrifice.

September misses Fairyland and her friends Ell, the Wyverary, and the boy Saturday. She longs to leave the routines of home and embark on a new adventure. Little does she know that this time, she will be spirited away to the moon, reunited with her friends, and find herself faced with saving Fairyland from a moon-Yeti with great and mysterious powers.

Join the Disney Princesses in this collection of stories featuring three tales of adventure, bravery, and enchantment.

Here is a short story about a girl called Daisy. One day, whilst visiting her grandmother's cottage a beautiful Dragonfly flies into the garden. Daisy is shocked when the creature looks at her, its tiny human face smiling. Later, on another visit to her grandmother's cottage other strange things happen. A beautiful story that parents will enjoy reading to their children. 5,700 words approx.

Deep within the imperial palace at Timbuktu, Amie has suffered a devastating loss. Once the daughter of a prosperous salt merchant Amie’s life was cruelly overturned in a matter of months. At sixteen, Amie now finds herself disinherited, framed for a scandalous crime, and forced to serve Princess Mariama of Mali. Her father, Emperor Sulyeman, has created a series of impossible trials for his daughter's suitors. When they fail, he publicly boils them alive, littering Mariama’s path to marriage with ninety-nine corpses.

Ashley is enjoying the last camping trip of the season with her best friend, Melody. She wants it to be an adventure. She’s about to get more than she’s bargained for. Cole is a dragon-shifter prince of another realm. After the murder of his father, he’s out for revenge. Despite a warning from the spirits that he will unleash trouble into his kingdom, he crosses into the world of humans to find the knight that killed his father. And that’s where Ashley and Cole meet. Ashley is lost to a new world, with only the dragon prince to keep her safe. She is unaware of how precious her ...

Trees are storykeepers, witnesses to magic and history. From far away, a girl tumbles like a leaf into our world. She makes a promise, discovers the secrets of an ancient oak and rescues a boy from a medieval hunt. She learns how wild apple blossom is linked to three runaway brides, and hears about the revenge of an overclipped box tree. From the underground roots to the uppermost branches, from plane trees in Persia, to tulip trees in North America and underwater kelp forests, she listens to the trees telling stories for all time. And she keeps her promise.