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(Note: This Story was Commissioned)
Two Royal Princesses have come to Aarden, seeking either the hand of its next King in marriage, or his head. Corrupt Councilors plot in the shadows, where secret assassins lurk. Only One Man can stand in the way of the dangerous plots which threaten to either destroy the Kingdom of Ethendale, or dethrone its future ruler, but he may have to surrender his manhood and adopt the physical form and womanly flesh of a Maiden Fair in order to do so...
Jorn Grimmtolsbane was once a great and legendary warrior.
Now he is a forgotten nobody, a twenty-nine-year-old exile from his ruined homeland, a maimed Weapons Master who can no longer lead the Warrior's life of a Sellsword which he yearns for most ardently, a refugee living a city governed by men and women who hate his kind, and friend only to a handful of fellow outcasts, courtesans... and to one flamboyant and rakish young twenty-two year old prince and Heir to the Realm who will one day soon be the next King of Ethendale.
When Jorn learns that there are dangerous plots threatening the safety and security of the realm, of those whom he cares about who live within it, and imperiling the life of his closest friend, the Crown Prince Erik Helecthorson, he commits himself to a secret cabal of loyalist officers, soldiers, and shadowy assassins who are working to protect the Kingdom and save the life of its future sovereign. But as maimed ex-soldier, he is of little use to the cabal's leaders, except as a conduit through which they persuade the Prince, his friend, not to take any rash action which my move the hostile conspirators to deadly action, too soon. This leaves the ex-sellsword and war hero feeling adrift, and purposeless, less than he once was, and of no real use to anyone. While his fellow loyalists search the city to uncover and defang a dangerous threat, and as royal women from throughout the Continent of Calasthrae pour in to the Great City of Aarden to seek his friend Erik's hand in marriage, and to become his future Queen, he drifts aimlessly from one dispassionate diversion to another, troubled by dreams which he does not understand, and uncomfortably aware of just how little he can do to make any difference to the great events presently underway.
But when the leaders of the loyalist movement are ambushed, and defeated, slain or suborned to malign purpose, the ex-Sellsword-turned-Weapons-Master abruptly and unexpectedly finds responsibility of defending Aarden and protecting his friend, the Prince, from deadly dangers thrust upon him. The task threatens to overwhelm him, and when a mysterious and otherworldly benefactress offers the ex-hero the power he will need to defeat his enemies and to deliver his friends, his adopted homeland, and his sundered people from their pitiable fates, how can he say no... even if the catch for such assistance requires him to put aside the manly form and male identity which are all that he has ever known?
At close to 100,000 words, MAIDEN FAIR (Part Two) is a novel-length second installment in an on-going Fantasy Romance Adventure Series which features an expansive fantasy world, a rich and deep political history and legendarium, complex cultural and civilizational conflict, and magical gender transformation.