Enchanting the King: A Sleeping Beauty retelling (The Fairy Tales of Lyond)

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Fans of Robin McKinley’s fairy tale retellings will devour this sweet fantasy romance.

When Princess Aliénor of Jerdun left her peaceful home, she’d hoped for adventure. Instead, her cruel husband has kept her confined to her wagon and set his pet witch to monitoring Aliénor’s behavior with spells.

King Thomas of Lyond set out on the same road east hoping to reclaim his colonies and forget a tragic loss. Instead his men are slaughtered, and he barely escapes with his life. Aliénor’s party finds him half-dead on the road, and Thomas finds himself instantly drawn to the princess. Thomas is older than Aliénor, jaded, but the brave princess kindles a light inside him. It breaks his heart Aliénor belongs to another man, and an unworthy one at that. Scrambling to survive in a perilous wilderness, they must fight their inconvenient attraction to each other.

But more than the enemy army dogs their steps. The cunning witch has set her sights on King Thomas, hatching a plan to make herself his queen and brewing a dark curse to take care of Aliénor . . .