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Princess without a Palace

A King Thrushbeard Fairy Tale

Kristen Niedfeldt

Fantasy Fairy Tale Retellings Retellings Romance

She’s headstrong, stubborn, and perfectly content in her palace.
He’s a penniless minstrel with no intention of proposing.
But one fateful song changes everything . . .

Princess Liesel never planned to leave her palace—especially not to marry a nobody. But after turning away one too many suitors, her father issues a shocking decree: she must marry the next man who asks, regardless of his rank or fortune. When that man turns out to be a wandering minstrel—who never meant to propose in the first place—Liesel suddenly finds herself cast out and engaged to a commoner.

Now forced to live as a peasant, Liesel must learn to survive without her silks, servants, or status. But as she struggles to adapt, she begins to see her unexpected betrothed in a new light—and wonders if her heart might be changing too.

A sweet retelling of the Grimm fairy tale King Thrushbeard.

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Published
June 29, 2016
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Kristen Niedfeldt

Kristen Niedfeldt is the author of ENDING THE RAIN, FINDING EVER AFTER, PRINCESS WITHOUT A PALACE, and MYSTERY AT THE MIDNIGHT BALL. After studying elementary education at Brigham Young University, she taught third grade for two years before she "retired" (as her students called it) to stay home with her little baby boys! She has always adored fairy tales, especially Gail Carson Levine's ELLA ENCHANTED and Shannon Hales's PRINCESS ACADEMY. When she's not writing, she loves to play outside with her kids, cook, and spend time living out her own happily ever after with her best friend and husband, Peter.

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