An ethereal fantasy for your teatime daydreams
In the final days of autumn, a young princess climbs her favourite tree clutching a folded star of paper to her aching heart.
Contained within its crisp lines are recountings of her dreams and darings… and a plea that she might, at last, be welcomed home.
With a kiss for luck, she tosses her star to the southbound winds, and stumbles her way to a crumbling cottage in the deep woods.
Years pass and the constellations spin, her pleas have gone unanswered. The princess grows, and her uncertainties are buried beneath the gentle earth of spurned hopes.
It is now, when she has almost forgotten how to wish on morning stars, that an invitation of smoke and dream light arrives, carried on horseback by soldiers of a different kingdom; the Dark Moon Ball might prove her salvation.
She does not yet know that love is an exquisite, wretched thing and that wishes are fickle as wisp light.
She does not yet know that paths of magic have their own sense of poetry, and walking them presses footprints into the deepest sands of self, remaining even as the stars and seasons turn.
She does not yet know that home is where you keep your north star.
Novel Chapters
- Prologue – Fall from the Feathered Willow
- Ch 1 – The Invitation – Pt 1
- Ch 1 – The Invitation – Pt 2
- Ch 2 – Grimwood Village – Pt 1
- Ch 2 – Grimwood Village – Pt 2
- Ch 2 – Grimwood Village – Pt 3
- Ch 3 – Whistleweather’s Emporium – Pt 1
- Ch 3 – Whistleweather’s Emporium – Pt 2
- Ch 4 – The Enchantress of Daisy Lane – Pt 1
- Ch 4 – The Enchantress of Daisy Lane – Pt 2
- Ch 5 – Princess Of Pennies – Pt 1
- Ch 5 – Princess of Pennies – Pt 2
- Ch 6 – The Lights of Darkwood
- Ch 7 – Crossing The Tears – Pt 1
- Ch 7 – Crossing The Tears – Pt 2
- Ch 8 – Marmalade’s Tree – Pt 1
- Ch 8 – Marmalade’s Tree – Pt 2
- Ch 8 – Marmalade’s Tree – Pt 3
- Ch 9 – Hope & Sea Stars
- Ch 10 – Marmalade’s Love Potion – Pt 1
- Ch 10 – Marmalade’s Love Potion – Pt 2
- Ch 10 – Marmalade’s Love Potion – Part 3
- Ch 11 – Repercussions – Part 1
- Ch 11 – Repercussions – Part 2
- Ch 11 – Repercussions – Part 3
- Ch 12 – Ghosts & Feathers – Part 1
- Ch 12 – Ghosts & Feathers – Part 2
- Ch 13 – The Rangers of Grimwood
- Ch 14 – Barbs & Wrath
- Ch 15 – Recovery – Part 1
- Ch 15 – Recovery – Part 2
- Ch 16 – An Unexpected Letter
- Ch 17 – Returning Home – Part 1
- Ch 17 – Returning Home – Part 2
- Ch 17 – Returning Home – Part 3
- Ch 18 – A Gown of Flowers & Starlight – Part 1
- Ch 18 – A Gown of Flowers & Starlight – Part 2
- Ch 18 – A Gown of Flowers & Starlight – Part 3
- Ch 18 – A Gown of Flowers & Starlight – Part 4
- Ch 18 – A Gown of Flowers & Starlight – Part 5
- Ch 19 – A Carriage Awaits – Part 1
- Ch 19 – A Carriage Awaits – Part 2
- Ch 19 – A Carriage Awaits – Part 3
- Ch 20 – The Dark Moon Ball – Part 1
- Ch 20 – The Dark Moon Ball – Part 2
- Ch 20 – The Dark Moon Ball – Part 3
- Ch 21 – Revelations – Part 1
- Ch 21 – Revelations – Part 2
- Ch 21 – Revelations – Part 3
- Ch 22 – Battle – Part 1
- Ch 22 – Battle – Part 2
- Ch 23 – Reunion – Part 1
- Ch 23 – Reunion – Part 2
- Ch 24 – Paths of Power – Part 1
- Ch 24 – Paths of Power – Part 2
- Ch 24 – Paths of Power – Part 3
- Ch 25 – A New Season (The End)
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