Solstice War Fairytales
Queer romantasy fairy tale retellings
Coming Soon: The Frog Prince
The Frog Prince with a rake, a loyal bodyguard, a cruel curse and high-stakes card games.
Another World’s Stars
Sleeping Beauty with magic portals, a circus performer and a cursed prince
Dancer and circus performer Tryxan was born with a shard of ice for a heart, never feeling anything but numbing cold and bitter disdain for a cruel world, which presents a crueler choice: live without joy, or risk death for a chance at being able to feel.
Tryxan takes the risk with a lethal stage performance, but instead of dying, they fall into a portal that leads them to a castle in a far-off land… and a prince who longs to dance at the Yuletide Ball, but who is cursed to die by setting foot in a ballroom.
Somehow, the ice is not so cold in the prince’s world, and as Tryxan teaches him to dance in the confines of his study, they find themselves feeling things they never have before. But a curse is not so readily thwarted, a shard not easily cast aside, and the pair’s desire cannot survive across worlds unless both are willing to sacrifice body and soul.
A romantic fantasy Sleeping Beauty novelette with winter solstices, dancing and stolen kisses.
Tropes & Themes
enby/m romance • portal magic • circus vibes • dancing lessons • cursed prince • time differential • war • hurt/comfort
Another World’s Stars is a novelette written in present tense, first person, single point of view with Tryxan as the main character.
Kissing only
The Rose Ball Rebels
The Twelve Dancing Princesses except six princes, a soldier bent on revenge and a cruel monarch
Eliott, Prince of Iris, is trapped. He and five other Princes of the Floral Realms are locked in a tower, kept as collateral for a treaty in a war that will never end.
Desperate to do something, the princes sneak out every night, meeting other conscientious objectors, dissenters and deserters to dance in defiance of their monarchs’ warring. Suspicious, the Queen of Iris sends spy after spy to find out why the princes’ shoes are always worn to nothing.
Every spy fails until the Midsummer Masquerades, when a masked stranger appears, and Eliott is drawn to her despite his wary caution. Every Realm is at war. She can’t possibly be on his side.
But when it’s love, there are no sides, and Eliott falls. The stranger, Nina, does too… except she has another mission, one that could cost them everything: love, the Rebels, and their freedom.
Tropes & Themes
queer m/f • whirlwind romance • love at first sight • masquerade • ballroom dancing • music • brotherhood • war • betrayal • forgiveness
The Rose Ball Rebels is a novella written in present tense, first person, single point of view with Eliott as the main character.
Kissing, undressing, sensual nakedness, implied oral sex
As I Command
Cinderella but gender-swapped and with an extra *cough* pirate *cough* lord
Marguerite Baccata intends to do big things as the first female businesswoman at Baccata Industries. So when her father suggests her best contribution will be in marrying a Floral Realms prince, she’s appalled. And furious, because he’s right – a royal wedding is a coup for the company. After all, Baccata Industries makes weapons, and the Floral Realms are at war.
Hoping to make the best of the situation, Marguerite attends a ball in her honour with the intention of finding a royal spouse. The princes are stuffy, the princesses cold, and Marguerite is instead drawn to the enigmatic Lord Sigaro, who claims to be a pirate. Then they both meet a beautiful stranger who glides like a swan on the dance floor, and their lives change.
Once a prince, now a destitute exile, Jules is the opposite of what Marguerite is looking for. But he knows more of the war than Marguerite ever imagined, and Jules needs her help. More; the whole of the Floral Realms needs her help. Neither she nor Lord Sigaro can walk away.
Marguerite realises that it’s time for her to take a stand. But can she abandon everything she’s worked so hard for?
Tropes & Themes
poly f/m/m • romance of defiance • feminine rage • ambitious businesswoman • magical fairy island • scarred prince • pirate lord
As I Command is a novella written in present tense, first person, single point of view with Marguerite as the main character.
Heavy kissing/touching, voyeurism, ripping clothing off, light bondage (no sex)
Sorrow for Thorns
Beauty and the Beast with a curse-hunting witch, a desperate assassin and an enchanted castle
Belle is on a hopeless quest. She’s traipsing across the Floral Realms seeking a weapon hidden in a cursed castle that might not even exist. But it’s that or be cast out of the Witchs’ Guild, and then she’d be destitute and alone in a world at war.
When Belle is attacked by wolves near the ominous Blacklily Castle, she thinks she’s found it – except now she’s wounded and at the mercy of the castle’s recalcitrant lord, Raphael.
Raphael is clearly hiding a dangerous secret, and he won’t talk about it. Worse, Belle is having strange dreams about a love lost long ago, and the longer she stays at Blacklily, the more she realises nothing is as it seems. Not the castle, not Raphael, not the woman in her dreams, and not the Guild she’s risked her life for.
Then the curse turns deadly, and Belle must untangle the castle’s secrets in time to save herself, Raphael and any chance of a happily ever after.
Tropes & Themes
f/f & queer m/f (it’s both at once, same couple, it makes sense, I promise) • second chance romance • secret identities • stubborn witch • brooding lord/assassin/prince/PRINCESS • dire curses • howling wolves • enchanted castle that tries to help • horrible mother who does not help • sapphic endgame
Sorrow for Thorns is a novella written in present tense, first person, single point of view with Belle as the main character.
Kissing and non-erotic nakednes
Coming Soon: The Virtues of Kings
A queer MF arranged marriage Princess and the Pea with war wounds and plotting murder. Anticipated mid-2026