A princess with a mostly useless magical talent takes on horrible monsters a dozen identical
masked heroes and a talking lion in a quest to save a kingdom—and herself—in this affectionate
feminist fairy tale satire. “Exactly the sort of queer fairy tale for grown-ups that I have
yearned to read . . . thrilling irreverent wondrous—yet unswervingly true to the heart.”—Ryka
Aoki author of Light from Uncommon Stars A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK: Autostraddle Fangirlish
Reactor Book Riot Reading Glasses Podcast Someone wants to murder Princess Melilot. This is
sadly normal. Melilot is sick of being ordered to go on dangerous quests by her domineering
stepmother. Especially since she always winds up needing to be rescued by her more magically
talented stepsisters. And now she's been commanded to marry a king she’s never met. When
hideous spider-wolves attack her on the journey to meet her husband-to-be she is once again
rescued—but this time by twelve eerily similar-looking masked huntsmen. Soon she has to
contend with near-constant attempts on her life a talking lion that sets bewildering gender
tests and a king who can't recognize his true love when she puts on a pair of trousers. And
all the while she has to fight her growing attraction to not only one of the huntsmen but
also her fiancé’s extremely attractive sister. If Melilot can't unravel the mysteries and
rescue herself from peril kingdoms will fall. Worse she could end up married to someone she
doesn’t love.
