Author:
Alex McGilvery has been reading since before he can remember, and writing almost that long. He has published 18 books and is author and editor at his imprint Celticfrog Publishing. He lives in Kamloops with his dog and the stories clawing their way out of his head.

The Unenchanted Princess is the tale of a princess born without an enchantment in a magic land where all royalty is surrounded by enchantment. Alexandra refuses to give in to her parents' schemes to find her an enchantment or marry her off to someone willing to overlook her lack. She runs away to escape, but soon learns she is at the heart of a struggle to control the Magic Lands.

Together with the Frog Prince, a Prince Charming who is turned into a crow and a young woman from a land where magic is forbidden, she must learn how to defeat her enemy and dispel the last enchantment.

The Unenchanted Princess

"They headed to the northwest, where all the swans but me and my maids must go." Avi pointed with her head. "They may have reached the other ruins. He laid a trap for those who would try to rescue me. Those ruins are the bait." She trumpeted to the swans around her. Herbert was almost deafened by their reply.


"My swans tell me they are there. They are in great danger. I cannot go. A barrier, like a glass wall, stops me, but one of my swans will carry you." She trumpeted again and a swan swam up to him. Herbert climbed painfully onto his back.


"Though I am trapped here for the moment, I will send my swans as I am able to learn what is happening through the Kingdoms." For the first time since Herbert had seen her, she looked like a princess. He knew that she was going to test the trap that held her every way that she could. Their mysterious enemy had not broken Princess Avi, but forged the young woman into a determined foe.


Chapter 34