MAIDEN: A FRACTURED FAIRYTALE

 

Hey everyone,

I know it has been a while since I've had a new release, but here I am with a story near and dear to my heart, MAIDEN, BOOK 1 of THE FRACTURED FAIRYTALES SERIES.

BLURB: Katania Avnaughn dreams of a day when she is no longer at the mercy of her manipulative mother and the taunts of her beautiful stepsister, Ella. A chance meeting with a journeying Prince makes Katania reconsider her hopes for the future. But then an unexpected death changes her life forever. Years later, abused and penniless, Katania thinks her life cannot get any worse until she is forced to entertain a cruel suitor. On a rare trip into town, Katania finds herself at the mercy of an attacker and is rescued by the returning Prince of Ortesia, Valentin.

Known to each other from their previous meeting, the attraction between them is renewed and even more powerful than before. But Katania has a suitor and the Prince is all but betrothed to someone else, until a twist of fate has the chance to change everything. When Katania receives an invitation to a royal masquerade ball, she knows that there is more at stake than a simple welcome home for the Prince.

With a new determination to win Valentin’s love and escape her mother once and for all, Katania sets out for the ball. Then, a mysterious maiden championed by the King is put in Valentin’s path, and Katania fears her chance at happiness has once again been thwarted. A glass slipper may be her saving grace.

When the King decrees that the maiden who can fit the slipper will be Valentin’s bride, Katania believes that fate is finally smiling on her. But when she and Ella can both wear the slipper, Katania realizes her journey to love and freedom is just beginning.

Facing a gauntlet of challenges from the King, Ella’s resolve to have Valentin for herself and mounting pressure from her social climbing mother, Katania soon becomes a pawn in a dangerous game of royalty, love and secrets.

MAIDEN has been a story a long time in the making. I actually wrote the first version of the story several years ago. Growing up, Cinderella was far from my favorite Disney Princess. In fact, I thought her story was kind of lame. But one day my muse spoke to me and I thought about what might have happened if the Prince fell for one of the Stepsisters, instead of Cinderella. What if Cinderella was not some damsel in distress, but a jealous, insecure young woman?

From that the story was born, and I was surprised at the crooks and turns the story took as I worked on it each day. The final product is a much darker version of the story, Disney gave us. This is a coming-of-age story filled with danger, social issues, and at its core a love story for the ages. I hope that when people meet my heroine, Katania (Kat) they will take to her and appreciate that she is not the typical fairytale maiden in any sense. Kat is feisty, against social norms and is not afraid to speak her mind. 

Welcome to the World of MAIDEN, set in the fictional kingdom of Ortesia. Below are links to all things MAIDEN.

MAIDEN PINTEREST BOARD: https://www.pinterest.com/erinashley2007/maiden/

AMAZON: https://www.amazon.com/Maiden-Fractured-Fairytales-Book-1-ebook/dp/B07VN24RYD/ref=sr_1_2?crid=1QASDYTAWIG66&keywords=erin+ashley+tanner&qid=1564404313&s=gateway&sprefix=erin+ashley+tanner%2Caps%2C167&sr=8-2

BOOKBUB: https://www.bookbub.com/books/maiden-fractured-fairytales-book-1-by-erin-ashley-tanner?source=twitter_share

WEBSITE: https://www.erinashleytanner.com/

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TWITTER: https://twitter.com/ErinTheAuthor

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PUSHING LIMITS

      June 21st will see the release of my 4th published solo novel, Devious Little Lies. Writing this novel pushed me to my limit in a lot of ways. For starters, it is the longest novel I've ever written. Pre-edits it was a whopping 98.3K. That's a lot of words. Add in writing it under a deadline in the middle of nursing school and I can truly say DLL was a true labor of love. It was also a labor of heart ache as well.

      As some may know, I am a die hard fan of General Hospital. That soap opera has inspired more than its share of fan fiction from me. But General Hospital also created something else, a complex, beautiful but deadly "villainess" I have come to love and adore, Ava Jerome. Played by Emmy winner, Maura West, Ava is one of those characters you either hate or love. She is a mob princess, a liar, manipulator, adulteress, cradle-robber, ect. The list goes on. But Ava is also a mother, a sister, and a miraculously flawed woman and I couldn't love her more.

    While I named the heroine from my first novel Dirty Little Secrets after her, my "heroine" in Devious Little Lies was without a doubt, wholeheartedly inspired by her. Rena Rosetti is not your typical novel heroine. In fact I would go so far as to say that she is not a heroine at all. What Rena is, is a multi-faceted woman who makes a lot of mistakes and does some less than stellar things. Who am I kidding? She does some terrible things.

    Creating Rena was strangely cathartic. I had the freedom to tell the story of a woman who goes on the most difficult character journey I have written so far. From a woman desperately searching for her own identity to a woman who finally discovers what she really wanted all along, I'm proud to have created her. Now there are going to be people who will not like her. Some will find her off-putting and rail at the choices she makes. But regardless of that being the case, I love Rena.

     Telling her story forced me to push my limits. I had to reach deep down inside of myself and realize that although the choices she makes are so far removed from who I am, that she was her own person with her own decisions to make. And make them she did with a bang.

    So if you're looking for a female anti-hero not afraid to hang with "the big boys," and do WHATEVER needs to be done to get what she wants, then Rena Rosetti is the woman you've been looking for.

  http://www.amazon.com/Devious-Little-Lies-Ashley-Tanner-ebook/dp/B01DCCH2E4?ie=UTF8&keywords=devious%20little%20lies&qid=1460669245&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1