Hello, Fairy Tale Aficionados! 

Throughout this week, Jenna’s Journal will be spotlighting featured authors of the Fractured Fairy Tales with blurbs and excerpts of their works, leading up to the Fairy Tale Ending Contest Thursday and Friday.  Read the excerpts from the different works during the week, and on Thursday I will post five questions about the five tales.  Leave a comment on this blog June 2 or 3, send me an email at jenna.jaxon@yahoo.com answering the five questions and you’ll be entered to win a copy of all five Fractured Fairy Tales featured on Jenna’s Journal.  The winner will be drawn randomly from all correct answers and notified via email.

Today’s featured author is Violet Heart.  Violet’s story, Hideous, is a twist on Beauty and the Beast–a tale as old as time.  Enjoy her blurb and excerpt below!

Blurb for Hideous:

Triselle has survived a winter of devastating snows. Spring has come, and with it, unending rain. The land is dying, along with any hope for happiness. Drawn to her lord’s castle, Triselle leaves her father’s farm and finds herself in a magical world under a curse.

Lord Vanir suffers as a man transformed into a hideous beast. The appearance of lovely Triselle threatens to send him deeper into his living hell. Her adventurous spirit and accepting heart surprise him, however. Somehow, she sees through his ugly countenance to the noble, generous man hidden within.

Can they find love despite adversity? Or will the curse condemn them both?

 Excerpt for Hideous:

What noise disturbed his slumber? The portcullis lifted!

Vanir heaved himself from bed, and trudged to his window. The portcullis had not moved since January. Had his curse been lifted? Running a hand over the rough chest he would never accept as his own, he issued a disappointed growl. If the curse remained, then who…what…entered his castle?

Sheets of rain hindered his visibility. Soon, the drops waned, and he discerned a figure moving through the outer bailey. A female figure. His salvation? Perhaps another means of increasing his torment.

Sighing, he wrapped a fur about his shoulders as she passed from the outer bailey to the inner. She seemed to have no purpose as she meandered along Trade Row. Who was she? Had she come here for a reason or had she simply stumbled upon his nightmare?

Plaited hair hung past her hips, and her clothing seemed plain. She stepped to his inner bailey and her gaze followed the stone walls of his donjon. Her upturned face revealed large eyes and truly fair features.

His stomach dropped. She had come to increase his despair.

Clamping his jaw until his teeth ached, he planted fists upon the window’s stone embrasure. A companion for the first time in six months. Why did she have to be a beauty? A lovely maiden would shun his hideous countenance. Scream from one look at him. Despise his presence within his own walls.

From the gateway, metal against metal rang out, echoing within the solid walls of his baileys. Already she ran for the exit. Not a good sign.

 Another intriguing tale to add to you TBR list!  Along with

FIVE GREAT NEW SEXY TALES  ALL ABOUT THAT HAPPILY EVER AFTER!

I hope you enjoyed this taste of Hideous.  If you’d like to see what else Violet Heart has to offer, just click on her name.

All of the Fractured Fairy Tales will be available on June 3rd from New Dawning Bookfair.  Come check us all out! 

Got a question for me or Violet?  Leave it here and we’ll answer you ASAP!