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

The Council Village was even busier than usual. The Council of Rulers had been meeting longer than any time in living memory. Messengers rode at breakneck speed back and forth across the Kingdoms. People quietly searched for the missing heirs. Others searched not so quietly for alternate solutions to the enchantments that were threatening the stability of the Magic Kingdoms.


Then a stranger from the north had sauntered into town and inquired the way to Poond. The guards rushed him into the presence of the King of Poond. After five minutes with the stranger, the King's shouts roused the Council. A corps of riders rode north on the causeway. The villagers gathered in the square to speculate about the cause of these proceedings. Some said that the northern kingdoms were invading, others that civil war was breaking out. Few said wait and be patient. As the day wore on, they wandered back to their work.


Chapter 41