Liesl is determined to find the man who broke her heart. Getting stuck in a magical valley with an ogre isn’t part of the plan.
Liesl shouldn’t let the rose that Tobias gave her mean anything; she knows he isn’t willing to pursue her. But the discovery that he left his beloved cat behind when he disappeared drives her wounded feelings to the breaking point.
If Beast could remember his own name, maybe he would know how he came to the mountain valley. A restlessness reminds him of a task unfulfilled, but the valley’s magic won’t let him escape.
When a young woman and her cat stumble through the pass, his memories begin to stir. The more time he spends with Liesl, the more he believes that he may know where to find her Tobias – and that he may have wronged her beyond what she can forgive.
But if a confession will harm someone else, can he even ask? Or is keeping his secret worth losing the woman he loves?
Snatch up your copy of Boots and Roses and lose yourself in this clean, no-spice retelling of Puss in Boots and Beauty and the Beast. It is the sixth book in The Roumaterra Chronicles, a series of interconnected, standalone fairytale retellings perfect for readers of Brittany Fichter and Annette K. Larsen.
The series
Familiar fairy tales take unexpected paths in The Roumaterra Chronicles, a collection of interconnected fantasy romance stories set across the kingdoms of Roumaterra. Cinderella crosses paths with Sleeping Beauty, Rumpelstiltskin shares a story with The Phantom of the Opera, and Robin Hood becomes entwined with Snow White and Rose Red, reshaping well-known tales into something distinctly their own.
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Erin Halbmaier's retellings focus as much on relationships as magic and adventure. Princes and princesses are allowed to make mistakes, marriages can be tested after the expected happy ending, and secrets, difficult choices, and old promises have consequences. Each story explores a different corner of Roumaterra while connections between characters and kingdoms gradually give the series a wider sense of place.
Written as clean, no-spice fantasy romance, the series combines fairy-tale magic with flawed characters, emotional conflicts, adventure, and hard-earned happy endings. Most of the books can be enjoyed as standalone stories, while reading them together reveals the threads connecting their reimagined fairy tales.
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