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

 "Not far, not far," said Prince Crow. Sure enough, by noon they were riding on a path that wound its way through the trees. By evening they saw the lights of a village shining from the bottom of a broad valley. Jordon and Rapunzel decided that they would rather face the fairies by daylight. They huddled under a tree and slept. When they woke in the morning there was no village in the valley below them. The little crow was crestfallen.


"Fairies run, fairies hide," he said. "I go look." He flew up into the trees and was gone.


"Do you have any more of those meat sticks?" The wolf's voice rumbled from the bushes.


"Sure," said Jordon, pulling some out of his pack. "Thank you for the rabbit."


The wolf came out of the bush and snapped up the meat that Jordon tossed him.


"So, why are you waiting here?" asked the wolf. "Why not go eat breakfast with them?"


"In the village," said the wolf. "They are having bacon and eggs. My nose is never wrong."


Chapter 71