Once upon a time...
There was an enchanted forest where fairy tales came to life...

ELIZA: After our father remarries, his new bride shows her true colors as an evil witch and curses my eleven brothers to live the rest of their lives as swans. There is only one way to lift the spell: I must take a six-year vow of silence, and at night, collect stinging nettles from graveyards to make eleven cloaks.
Together, my brothers and I venture outside Fable Forest to escape our stepmother’s wrath.
Three years later my vow of silence is severely tested when I meet the most handsome man I have ever seen. The infatuation is mutual, but how can I make him understand that I need to spend my nights at graveyards when I’m not allowed to speak?

EDWARD: Building a town on the outskirts of Fable Forest was just the kind of challenge I was looking for. Until I run into a nasty witch that is. For saving her cat, she rewards me with a curse to turn into a dragon at night. She claims this is how I will find my true love.
But how can I find true love like this?
I resign myself to a life without love, until I meet the most beautiful stranger who lives in an old, abandoned graveyard with eleven swans. Doubting my sanity, I can’t stay away from her. 

Published
May 20, 2024
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This was a really fun Retelling of The Wild Swans full of wonderful characters that I loved getting to know. I enjoyed seeing how the relationship between Eliza and Edward developed and Elizabeth brothers and their antics were amusing at times as well. The epilogue was a great way of tying the story together and I really enjoyed reading this book. I haven't read a lot of variations for this fairy tale so far but this book was a fun take on it.

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