The Price of Beauty: A Colorful Fairy Tale of Beauty

by S. R. Jaye

Overview

An unmatched fairy tale retelling of beauty and wonder. The reward is in the journey - true beauty is more than skin deep...

The High King of the Mortal Realm requires a beautiful wife. She should be without flaw, untainted by curse. But he's forced, by law and magic, to select her from among the cursed misfits of The Outlands...

The Fairy Queen of the Unseelie Court desires the handsome prince and complete control of all realms, human and fae. But a prophesied mixed breed stands in her way...

The Fairy King of the Seelie Court needs his half human son as heir to save his kingdom. But his son is untrained and vulnerable to the dual temptations of beauty and power...

Maisie, the plain girl from The Outlands, promises her dying mother she'll save her younger sister from a dire aging curse. When she plucks a magic rose deep in the dark forest called The Doove, she's thrust into an extraordinary world and becomes everyone's pawn...

The Price of Beauty is the first of three books in the Grayling Prophecy series. It comprises the first three books of the Beauty and The Fae Courts of Light and Dark series: Into the Forest, The Grayling Fae, and A Court of Many Colors, and includes bonus scenes and updated material. It ends in a cliffhanger.

How far would you go? How much would you be willing to sacrifice? If you really knew...The Price of Beauty.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798823110617
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	10/11/2022
Series:	Grayling Prophecy , #1
Pages:	664
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.33(d)

About the Author

Favorite fairy tale? I can't pick just one. That's why I love mashups and retellings.

The Beauty and The Fae Courts of Light and Dark series and the Grayling Prophecy series are the combination of an Italian fairy tale from Naples that my grandma used to tell me, The King Who Would Have a Beautiful Wife, and Tamlin, a Scottish fairy tale I particularly love. Both are about love. But also about the deeper things of the human psyche and experience.

I've chosen to release this epic-length tale first in smaller, more digestible chunks than the usual fantasy novel. With cliffhangers. If that's your thing, excellent. If not, then hang on until the story's finished and read it all at once. Every set of three smaller books will also be made available combined into a single larger book in the Grayling Prophecy series.

I write books that take me away to another world. That are imbued with a sense of magic and light.