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The Wild Swans


A Young Adult Fantasy Novel


Book 2 of the Timeless Fairy Tales Series


Subgenres & Tropes:

  • Fairy Tale Retelling,
  • Curse Breaking,
  • Sibling Quest,
  • Stand-Alone,
  • Humorous Fantasy
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This book is for you if you're into...

  • Fairytale retellings with impossible magical tasks and clever heroines
  • Silent sacrifice and high-stakes sibling bonds
  • Fantasy worlds where math nerds save the day
Publisher Description

Elise is the foster-daughter of the King of Arcainia, a mathematician, and the country's treasurer. She is not a hero. But when her step-mother, a wicked witch, curses Elise's seven foster-brothers—the princes of Arcainia—and turns them into swans, Elise is the only one who can save them.

To break the curse, she must knit seven shirts made of stinging nettles, but there's a catch. She has to complete the shirts without uttering a word, and if she doesn't finish the task, Arcainia and her foster-brothers will be lost.

THE WILD SWANS is a retelling of the German Six Swans fairytale and the Dutch Wild Swans fairytale. It is a story of humor, love, adventure, and magic, and it is part of the top selling Timeless Fairy Tales series—a series comprised of loosely related adaptations of your favorite fairytales. All Timeless Fairy Tales take place in the same world and can be read all together, or as individual, stand-alone books.

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