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Tale As Old As Time

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Reads 319
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Parts 4
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Once upon a time, is how the old lie goes. For truth is light as leaves in the current, and time it ever flows.                                                                                                               

A mythpunk take on the old fable. A little town, a quiet village, where an inventor's daughter dreams of tomorrow's promise, devouring the literature of the French Enlightenment. Where a damaged soldier learns the greatest struggle could be to refuse to fight. And a prince cursed ponders surrender.

This tale as old as time, this song as old as rhyme, has some darker notes to play.All Rights Reserved

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A Deceptive Beauty by bookstar99

[Fantasy/Romance/non-teen fiction] *Formerly known as The True Story of the Beast* After being punished for messing with a witch, Duke Kaiden Hunter is desperate to break the curse that makes him have an alternate personality - a beast. But the duke's mission is one that will be nearly impossible for him to fulfill: to find a pure-hearted girl who truly loves him, and for her to kiss him at the end of the year. But how can he trust himself when both personalities are cruel in some way? Especially when the beast is capturing girls and is trying to figure out who the girl is - but for a different reason: to kill her. Annabelle Harper's father is a terrible gambler who can't always pay all of his debts. When Belle's father decide to gamble with the beast, he accidentally gambles away his daughter. Annabelle will now have to pay her father's debt by staying in Kaiden's castle for the rest of the year, with some other girls and the house staff. But as Belle stays longer at the castle, she learns more about her hidden past. Could her past affect the people around her? With his time limited, Kaiden can only hope he can reverse the curse. And with so many possibilities, the choice will be much more difficult. Here is the True Story of the Beast.

Days In The Sun by RocketGenie

Once upon a time in the hidden heart of France, a handsome young prince lived in a beautiful castle. Although he had everything his heart desired, the prince was selfish, spoiled, and unkind. He had an entire army of servants there to attend to his every need, most of which were there since his childhood. The prince nearly hated his staff, even when they'd done nothing wrong - and were only trying to meet his needs. One night, during one of the Prince's courting events - a special type of ball, where dozens of young woman would dress up and dance with the prince, in an attempt to win over his heart and become queen to the Kingdom - An uninvited guest arrived. It was a poor, shivering, elderly woman seeking shelter from the bitter winter storm. Repulsed by her haggard appearance, the prince dismissed the woman. As a gift, the old woman offered the prince a single rose, but when he dismissed her again, the woman's outer appearance melted away. Only to reveal a beautiful enchantress. The prince begged for forgiveness, but it was too late - for she could see there was no love in his heart. The enchantress cursed the prince, transforming him into a hideous beast - and if he was unable to learn to love another, and earn their love in return by the time the last petal from the rose she offered had fallen, he would remain a beast forever. But the enchantress also placed the curse upon his innocent castle staff, who were transformed into antiques; suffering for the prince's mistake(s) in small, rusting, metallic bodies. Life was hard enough for the staff, but now - it was unbearable. ~ This story will go through the staff's struggles before, DURING, and after they were cursed. It will also fill plot holes and extend the ending of Beauty And The Beast. A majority of this story is a prequel, and will fall into a bit of a sequel as well, so I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it!

Once upon a Rumbelle (Completed) by anterbinder

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His True Love(Completed) by Grandkids03

Rumpelstiltskin had saved Belles Kingdom from disaster during the oger wars, and as payment from her father he took Belle to be his maid, eventually she fell in love with him and him with her. But what if Belle wasn't the first girl that he made a deal with to save her kingdom, what if there was a girl before her? A girl that changed his life forever, a girl that he fell in love with, a girl that he thought he had lost and made his heart so guarded. When he took Alisa from her kingdom to be his maid the one thing he never expected was to fall in love with her. Alisa is a stong independent princess, that is good with a sword and isn't afraid to speak her mind no matter how much trouble her mouth gets her into. To be honest she's happy to be away from her father, and while things start off rocky that all changes when she begins to fall in love with her master/boss and her life changes forever. This is a once upon a time fan-fiction that'll only take place in the enchanted forest before the whole evil curse thing. Also I changed Rumpelstiltskin a bit, instead of changing with true loves kiss. It'll take some other form of magic that you'll learn about in the book. This book will contain minor language, as well as sexual content(once they're married) Read at your own discretion.

Torn Pages by moonwrecks

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The Time-Traveller's Choice by sennalily

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Time turner ⚜️prince Adam ⚜️ by born-to-rebel99

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Lovely Curses by LuckandPen

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Beautifully Beastly by Cegolder

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A Deceptive Beauty

[Fantasy/Romance/non-teen fiction] Formerly known as The True Story of the Beast After being punished for messing with a witch, Duke Kaiden Hunter is desperate to break the curse that makes him have an alternate personality - a beast. But the duke's mission is one that will be nearly impossible for him to fulfill: to find a pure-hearted girl who truly loves him, and for her to kiss him at the end of the year. But how can he trust himself when both personalities are cruel in some way? Especially when the beast is capturing girls and is trying to figure out who the girl is - but for a different reason: to kill her. Annabelle Harper's father is a terrible gambler who can't always pay all of his debts. When Belle's father decide to gamble with the beast, he accidentally gambles away his daughter. Annabelle will now have to pay her father's debt by staying in Kaiden's castle for the rest of the year, with some other girls and the house staff. But as Belle stays longer at the castle, she learns more about her hidden past. Could her past affect the people around her? With his time limited, Kaiden can only hope he can reverse the curse. And with so many possibilities, the choice will be much more difficult. Here is the True Story of the Beast.