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 next week was almost enough to make Rapunzel forget the niggling worry she had felt through George's gossip. In the Magic Kingdoms she was one of the young people who were simultaneously saving the Kingdoms and turning them on their heads. Here she was just Rapunzel. She had gone to school down the street. Her mom and her father were just normal people. Jordon, too, seemed to relax and just enjoy himself. He wore a knitted cap everywhere but in Rapunzel's home. He explained that the cold air made his head ache. He wasn't ready to test Bill's warning that not everyone liked the idea of the Magic Kingdoms.


Rapunzel couldn't remember ever thinking of them as a child, other than as a setting for a book she was reading. Now it seemed that they were the source of endless speculation. Rapunzel's father said that it happened every so often. The last time was before Rapunzel was born. It was best just to let it be and it would fade away.


Chapter 75