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

Jock, for the third time, felt the dislocation of the magic saddle. He arrived at the Glass Mountain in time to hear Ariel's scream. He couldn't see a thing because of the shadows in the room.


"I am insulted," replied a high-pitched voice out of the darkness. "That you could mistake me for that pompous windbag! I shall turn you into something especially nasty for that impertinence." As soon as Jock heard the voice he had started moving cautiously in that direction. He got his hands on soft skin and was rewarded by a slight gasp from Ariel. Putting his finger on her lips he began sliding away from the fairy. Suddenly the shadows disappeared, and Jock was looking at a fairy that was at least half again as tall, and as broad as Jock himself.


"You," he said to the fairy, "have an awfully prissy voice for such a big galoot."


Chapter 64