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

 "I don't know that story," said Alexandra.


"A miller was a boastful man, and there was nothing that anyone could do that he couldn't do better, or, if not him, then his daughter. She was a quiet girl and kept to herself. She loved to spin, and would sit by the fire and listen to her father boast while she spun wool into thread. One day a King rode through their village and stopped by the mill for a drink. Sure enough, the miller filled the King's ears with boasting, but the King just ignored it all. Finally, desperate for a response from his royal guest, the miller claimed that his daughter could spin gold out of straw. That got the attention of the King, for who has ever known a King who didn't need more gold? He told the miller to send his daughter to the King's palace. He would give her a room full of straw. If she could spin it into gold, well and good he would make her his Queen. If she failed, then she and the miller would die."


Chapter 85