Disenchanted (Disenchanted #1)

This is the original Young Adult version of Disenchanted, published by The Parliament House Press in 2020. As of December 2022, I have since rereleased it geared for a New Adult audience, and the rest of the trilogy will follow this NA rating. The new edition is entitled, Disenchanted (A Lay of Ruinous Reign: Book One) and is now available at all online retailers and select bookshops.

A Breton princess at the peak of the French Renaissance, Lilac lives prisoner in her parents' castle after a wicked secret is revealed on the eve of her tenth birthday soirée. Years later, her coronation ceremony looms, and between the riotous townsfolk and scheming nobleman bent on snatching the throne, Lilac prepares for the worst... Until a mysterious letter arrives from The Witch of Lupine Grotto, detailing a curious offer to cure her darkness forever.

Lilac begrudgingly trades her coronet for a cloak and ventures into the forest Brocéliande in pursuit of the impious enchantress at the edge of town. With only the protection of an inherited dagger—and unsolicited help of the sardonic stranger who inserts himself on her quest—she must traverse Brocèliande and return in time to claim her rightful position as sovereign monarch.

This is the story of a cursed princess,
A crestfallen killer,
The town that wants them to burn,
And the witch that can save them both.