Of a Lilac Moon Chronicles of a Kingdom Cursed: Fairy Rhymes, Cautionary Tales, and Connected Fairy Tales

"Can we stay to play in the moonlight dear, and rest when morning comes?We might not meet the dawn I fear, a lilac night brings blood."

Fae was only meant to serve her dragon master, but love does not follow the rules of dragon law nor does it protect them from the daemons who enforce it.

Princess Jules learned how to keep secrets while still very young, on the day she found a hole in the garden wall, on the day she met the monster her father had always feared.

Gella could not free herself. Only the pure of heart could pass and hers was entirely too broken. So, when a man arrived, pleading for her help, she allowed him to break the spell, feeling both the love and loss that would surely follow.

While others in the Kingdom might have seen the purple tones of the moon as beautiful, few knew what a lilac moon really meant. A night like that could only end in blood.

Of a Lilac Moon is a collection of connected stories and rhyming poetry that bring together the romance of classic fairytales with a modern fantasy twist. The stories and poems find a mixture between the ethereal and the macabre in a magical Kingdom plagued with daemons but fueled by love.

Author's Note: In this book, you will find the convergence of poetry and storytelling. Each poem tells a story and you can imagine them to be tales written by the people living under the watchful eye of the moon. Each story in the final section of the book intertwines with the other and we watch as the characters interact, suffering and rising on a singular poetic journey toward the place where moonlight nearly touches the earth and daemons emerge from the shadows. This book is not simply a collection, but a singular tale written through a multitude of voices. It is all at once dark, romantic, heartbreaking, and hopeful. While the world may be entrenched in fantasy, the message is clear; We must all rise to defeat the daemons that hide in the shadows, There is no such thing as perfection, not even for a fairytale princess, Curses can be broken and there is always hope, even under a lilac moon.

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