I am so excited to announce that I have another novel coming in a multi-author series next year, and this one is bringing together two well-known fairy tales, myths and legends for a villain romance in every single book! The series releases begin in January, and my book, Falling for the Enchantress will release on 13 March 2026:
An ancient witch with a grudge.
A sheriff with something to prove.
An enchantment they’ll come to regret, but never escape.
High Priestess Morgaine has been hiding in plain sight for centuries, using her magic to hide herself and her coven from Prince John’s witch hunters. But when a young witchling is slain by the new sheriff’s men, Morgaine will stop at nothing to get vengeance. She’ll kill every witch hunter in the royal forests, including the cruel and handsome sheriff, and then she’ll find Prince John and cut out his heart for good measure.
Until a protection spell backfires and she finds herself magically bound to her enemy. If he dies, so does she.
Stefano’s only job as the High Sheriff of the Royal Forests is to rid the country of the scourge of witchcraft. Betrothed to Prince John’s daughter, he’s desperate to prove his worth and live up to his name as the Grand Witch Hunter. The only thing standing in his way is the captivating and enigmatic witch he’s now bound to by some twist of fate.
As sparks fly and the sworn enemies grow to grudgingly respect each other, could there be more than pure hatred causing the tension between them?
Falling for the Enchantress is a fairy tale that combines elements of Robin Hood and King Arthur. Set between the events in each of these stories, it is the ninth book in the To Win a Dark Heart series, which retells fairy tales as old as time, but this time it’s the villain’s turn to get a happy ending.
Want more no-spice fairy tale mash-ups where the villains finally get their chance at a happily ever after? Check out the rest of the To Win a Dark Heart multi-author collection!
Falling for the Trickster by Lucy Tempest (Rumpelstiltskin + Goose Girl)
Falling for the Doomed Bride by C.K. Beggan (Bluebeard + Sleeping Beauty)
Falling for the Winged Witch by Sarah Beran (Wild Swans + Jack & the Beanstalk)
Falling for the Crystal Fae by Anabelle Raven (The Snow Queen + Aladdin)
Falling for the Pirate by Nicki Chapelway (Peter Pan + The Little Mermaid)
Falling for the Mad King by Sydney Winward (Alice in Wonderland + The 12 Dancing Princesses)
Falling for the Sorcerer by Jes Drew (Rapunzel + Swan Lake)
Falling for the Wolf by Megan Charlie (Little Red Riding Hood + Cinderella)
Falling for the Enchantress by Lyndsey Hall (Robin Hood + King Arthur)
Falling for the Pied Piper by Ashley Evercott (Beauty & the Beast + The Pied Piper)
Falling for the Dark Mage by Lucy Winton (East of the Sun, West of the Moon + The Frog Prince)
Falling for the Huntsman by Leialoha Humpherys (Snow White + Hansel & Gretel)
I can’t believe the first release day for the Once Upon a Prince series is finally here! Happy book birthday to The Unlucky Prince by Deborah Grace White!
If you didn’t get round to preordering, or you were holding out for a paperback, you can grab it here now:
To celebrate release day, I had a chat with the lovely Deborah, so keep reading to find out all about Deborah’s writing process and her upcoming releases!
Hi Deborah! It’s so nice to chat with you properly after a year of working together on OUAP. Why don’t you start by telling us a little bit about yourself?
I’m from Adelaide, in Australia, but I lived for some years of my childhood in California. I’ve loved stories as long as I can remember, and have always been an avid reader. After school, I studied to be a lawyer, which I really enjoyed, and I worked in that field for a few years before my husband and I decided to start a family. After our second child was born, I took a sidestep into writing, and properly got stuck into some stories I had in my mind. Now I get to have the best job ever—being at home with our three young kids while also writing the stories I love!
Wow, you’re a truly multi-talented woman! What made you choose fiction writing after a career in the law?
As I said, I’ve always loved reading, but when I was younger, the main type of writing I used to do was actually poetry. I tinkered with writing stories during my school years, but didn’t pursue it seriously. It was after I had kids that I had the headspace to actually give it a proper try, thanks to the change in routine from full time office work. My sister and father are also both published authors, so they were hugely encouraging and helpful in the practical details of self-publishing, which otherwise may well have defeated me!
That’s amazing! So, novel writing is the family business? I love that. What are your favourite books, as a reader?
Far too hard to choose! I have many old favorites, especially the historical romances (for want of a better category?) that I grew up on, including works by LM Montgomery, Louisa May Alcott, Jane Austen. I’ve also always loved fantasy, enjoying classic authors such as CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien since earliest memory, and loving growing up alongside the Harry Potter books. In terms of more recent books, I really enjoy fantasy romance. I like clean but deeply engaging romance, I love adventure, danger, and intrigue, I like dragons and magic, and I always want a happily ever after! Some of the tropes I’m a sucker for are a good guard/princess romance, and a good childhood sweethearts separated until adulthood romance. I also love chosen one and lost heir tropes, even though I know they’re used to death! They still do it for me.
Me too, the chosen one trope will always be a favourite of mine, no matter how many iterations I read! And the guard and princess romance trope is absolute gold. Tell us a little bit about your debut novel and what inspired it.
My first published book was Heir of the Curse, Book One of The Kyona Chronicles. It’s a coming of age fantasy story about a pair of friends raised as closely as brothers who discover that one of them is the lost heir to the throne, and go on an adventure. Even though it was my first book, I still love these characters and this story!
The dragons were really fun to write, and one thing I really enjoyed about that book (and the whole Kyona series) was the crisscrossing timelines. The story of the main characters is interwoven with stories of the last of the great kings before the bloodline was lost some two hundred years earlier, and for me, those extra layers added a richness to the story that made it all the more enjoyable to write. I loved the book Holes by Louis Sachar when I was in school, and was inspired by how brilliantly timelines are woven together in that book to try my own version of it. Albeit in a substantially different genre.
My only regret in Heir of the Curse is not giving the romance a little bit more focus than I did. It took me a few books to fully recognize and acknowledge how important romance is to me in my stories! But it’s there, even if it’s not as central as it is in my later books. The follow up trilogy to The Kyona Chronicles, The Kyona Legacy, has the same world, the same dragons, the same interwoven timelines…but more focus on the romance.
It can definitely take a few books to really find your niche – I’m only one trilogy in and I’m still not sure I’ve found mine! I love the sound of the dual timelines in your first series, I’ll have to check it out. Where do you find inspiration for your stories, characters and settings?
In normal life, I suppose. People are people, and there’s constant inspiration around me for that. I also find it helpful to just enjoy other people’s creativity—be it books, movies/TV shows, music, whatever—to help inspire my own creativity. Not that I watch/read/listen to other art with any particular focus or pressure on it. I just enjoy it, and it sparks my own thoughts. I’ve also always loved travel. My husband and I took a year off life to backpack around the world before we had kids, and those experiences definitely help fuel both my stories and my settings.
A year of travelling pre kids sounds incredible! I’ve been lucky to travel lots throughout my life too, I studied Spanish at University and lived in Spain for a year, and you’re so right that those experiences and other cultures are such a good source of inspiration. Would you say your a plotter, pantser or plantser?
I think I’d have to say plantser! It’s not uncommon for me to dive in with no planning whatsoever, but once I get a little way in, I’ll stop and plan a few chapters, then go off-road again! And so on throughout the book.
I need a really good road map before I even start the engine! But I do love a good detour. What are you working on at the moment?
I’m actually just starting a new series! It’s a YA fantasy series set in the world of my fairy tale series The Singer Tales (although it’s not a fairy tale series itself). I also have lots of editing still to do on the two as-yet-unreleased books in The Singer Tales.
So, there’s lots to look forward to for fans of The Singer Tales! And your books in general. YA Fantasy is my favourite genre, so I’m excited for your new series! Before I let you go, what one piece of advice would you give aspiring authors?
If you love writing, keep doing it! The best way to get experience in writing is to keep writing. And also to find people willing to read and give you feedback, and to learn (believe me, I know it’s hard!) to take that feedback seriously and not personally, and actually let it improve your craft.
Such good advice, it can be really hard to receive feedback and constructive criticism in the beginning, but it’s such an important and necessary part of growing as a writer. Thank you so much for chatting with me today Deborah! And congratulations on the release of The Unlucky Prince. Where can we find you online and stay in touch?
My newsletter and my Facebook page are the best ways to keep up with what’s going on with my writing. I also keep my website up to date, and you can find cool freebies on there, like bonus chapters.
That was so much fun! Deborah is such a huge inspiration to me and so many others, so it’s been a privilege working with her on OUAP this past year. And now, my copy of The Unlucky Prince is calling me, so I’m off to find out if the frog gets the girl.
Happy book birthday to Alice Ivinya’s new dark, fae fantasy, Crown of Glass!
This is a brand new series starter, with three more novels coming soon, each retelling a familiar fairytale in a fresh, exciting way.
Crown of Glass is a Cinderella retelling set in Faery. Only in this retelling, the prince is the villain, the balls are deadly, and Ella has much better reasons to run that coaches turning into pumpkins!
The ugly sisters will get you drunk on faery wine, and the fairy godmother is a bloke who’s a spy!
Here’s the official blurb:
Sometimes the strongest things are made of glass.
Half kelpie, half human, Fenella belongs to neither Faery nor the mortal realm. She strives to remain unnoticed, for humans have always distrusted the fae.
And distrust breeds violence.
When Fenella is kidnapped by a ruthless stranger, she lands in Faery at the center of deadly schemes. Her only chances to escape back to her family are during three glittering balls.
However, escape from this dangerous world becomes more complicated as she’s torn between a villain and a spy.
Neither will give her up.
Neither will let the other live.
And both will wage war to place a crown of glass on her head.
Crown of Glass is a heart-pounding young adult fantasy with clean romance. It is perfect for fans of Holly Black’s The Cruel Prince, Leigh Bardugo’s Shadow and Bone, and the retellings of K.M. Shea and Marissa Meyer.
If that sounds like your cup of tea, you can grab Crown of Glass, book one in the Kingdoms of the Faery Path series by Alice Ivinya, right now:
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