The Swan Bride: A Swan Lake Retelling
A royal Selection Ball. A doomed romance. He’s not exactly a prince, but then, she’s not entirely human . . .
Leda happily shifts between two different forms and two different worlds, living as a magical fae creature called a swan maiden. But when a sorcerer steals her feather cloak, she is stuck as a human until it is returned. Cut off from her former magic, her only hope is to persuade a reluctant prince to declare his love and battle the sorcerer on her behalf.
Navigating the human world is hard. Navigating the prince’s Selection Ball is even harder. The prince’s enigmatic half-brother promises to help her gain the prince’s favor, but soon, Leda finds herself torn between them.
Will Leda find her true home at last? Or will her fractured magic release an even greater horror?
The Swan Bride is a clean romantic and comedic fantasy inspired by Swan Lake and other Fairytales.
This book one of a series of interconnected standalone novels. Each new story takes inspiration from a different fairytale couple as the human kingdoms become more entangled with the Fae Courts just outside their borders.
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Jacque Stevens
Jacque Stevens has always been drawn to stories where shadows hold secrets and love has to fight to survive. Long before she became a USA Today bestselling author, she was a nursing student scribbling chapters between shifts, escaping into worlds filled with fae bargains, broken crowns, and the kind of magic that comes at a cost. What began as a quiet act of relief soon grew into a passion that shaped her life and an entire library of fantasy retellings that breathe new life into old legends.
Borderland Brides Fairytale Retellings
Step across the boundary where human kingdoms brush against the hidden realms of the fae, and you enter a world where familiar fairy tales are rewritten in shadows and starlight. In Borderland Brides Fairytale Retellings, magic is both beautiful and dangerous, love is tangled with duty, and every choice carries weight beyond what the eye can see.
Borderland Brides Fairytale Retellings consists of one primary book, and includes one additional book that complement the series but is not considered mandatory reads and series is set to expand with the upcoming release of one more book. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
Reviews and Comments
This was a really fun Retelling of A Swan Lake and did a great job of tying it in with the authors other Fairy tale retellings while still working as a standalone story. It was fun getting peaks of The Shoeless Prince: A Puss in Boots Retelling as well as the upcoming book The Soulless Prince: A Tam'lin Retelling. I loved getting to know both Leda and Freddie in this story as well as Freddie's brother Theo and friend Prince Briar who I hope to read more about in future stories. I am also looking forward to reading more about Nora from the Selection Ball in her story The Storybook Bride: A Red Shoes Retelling.
I received a free advanced reader copy of this book from the author and am voluntarily leaving a review.
