Books with author Kelsie Engen

Surviving daily life in Monticola is harsh for Pia and her family—and even harsher for the weak. Every day is a struggle to put food on the table and keep her sister's illness at bay while her father drinks away their coin. Together with her brothers and mother, Pia works hard to keep her family safe and warm. Only through their combined efforts, can twelve-year-old Pia keep her family from being kicked out of their home. Yet as her sister's treatments get more expensive, all with the hopes of forever curing her, Pia is forced to desperate actions to keep her family together and safe.*This novella is a standalone extra to the Snow White inspired, Canens Chronicles series. This story takes place before Fog & Mist.Other stories in the Canens Chronicles:Princess Ada & the Witch's Rampion (a Rapunzel origin story)

A usurper queen on a stolen throne.A princess imprisoned, enslaved, and believed dead by her people.A foreign prince searching for his sister.Each entangled in a curse that threatens all of the Seven Kingdoms. Crown Princess Winterberry's stepmother will do anything to prevent her ascension—even if it means assassinating her. And on the eve of the princess's twenty-first birthday, Queen Blanche arrests Winterberry under false claims of treason.Although a long-standing prophecy proclaims death to anyone who kills a Canens royal, Blanche is determined to find a way. Step one goes off without a hitch: auction off the true heir as an incognito slave and send her halfway across Canens with Blanche's most trusted huntsman.But on the other side of the Seven Kingdoms, an enemy prince gambles his throne and his life, crossing into Canens after his kidnapped sister. The farther he travels, the more entangled he becomes in the Canens Curse, the slavery underworld, and Princess Winterberry herself. Soon, even he doesn't realize how much more is at stake.Enter the cursed world of the Seven Kingdoms in book one of this Snow White retelling, where you will find elements of Red Riding Hood and other beloved faery tales.

An actress. Her daughter. And a long-buried lie.Attending Oxford University for medical school is Adrienne Talbot's lifelong dream--and it's finally coming true. She's been accepted, and she's on the flight to London when a concussion changes everything.Now, instead of traveling England before school begins, she must call upon her estranged, A-list actress mother for help.An unenthusiastic greeting leads to an extended stay when Adrienne meets her mother's new fiancé and is dragged into a world of glitz and paparazzi--by a scandal that centers around her. This scandal could not only destroy any chance of reconciliation with her mother, but ruin Adrienne's close relationships with her sisters and father back home. Desperate to find answers, Adrienne sets out upon a journey into her mother's past and begins to uncover the lies she once thought were truths.

She’s a princess on the run. With the weight of the entire Seven Kingdoms on her shoulders.Crown Princess Winterberry fled her cursed homeland after escaping slavery and the ruthless assassination attempt at her own stepmother’s hands. Now in enemy lands, she doesn’t know who to trust. And finally realizing her own powerful magic, she trusts herself least of all.Certain she brings more danger than help to those she cares about, Winterberry leaves the very ones who rescued her from her prison and travels into Ardor to seek the only allies she can think of: the King and Queen and their son. But before she can reach them, she must outrun the huntsman of Canens, her stepmother’s right-hand man who never fails to catch his prey.Outrunning both friends and enemies, Winterberry must reach the Ardorian royal family and beg for their help. Only united with the royal families of the Seven Kingdoms can she break the Canens Curse and free the entire Seven Kingdoms from an unimaginable future.Fire & Frost is book 2 in an epic fantasy Snow White and Cinderella retelling. This multi-POV novel is perfect for readers who enjoy dark fairy tales with complex storylines.book 1: Fog & Mistbook 2: Fire & Frostbook 3: coming fall 2020

As Keepers of the Clades Forest, two orphaned but devoted sisters must protect and care for the woods around their home. One day, everything changes when they save an enchanted bear who becomes their friend. But when human footprints appear in their uninhabited woods and the bear disappears, the sisters have no choice but to seek their friend—along with whatever might be hunting him.This story has been previously published in From the Stories of Old, JL Anthology Vol. 1.

She’s a princess on the run. With the weight of the entire Seven Kingdoms on her shoulders.Crown Princess Winterberry fled her cursed homeland after escaping slavery and the ruthless assassination attempt at her own stepmother’s hands. Now in enemy lands, she doesn’t know whom to trust. And finally realizing her own powerful magic, she trusts herself least of all.Certain she brings more danger than help to those she cares about, Winterberry leaves the very ones who rescued her from her prison and travels into Ardor to seek the only allies she can think of: the King and Queen and their son. But before she can reach them, she must outrun the huntsman of Canens, her stepmother’s right-hand man who never fails to catch his prey.Outrunning both friends and enemies, Winterberry must reach the Ardorian royal family and beg for their help. Only united with the royal families of the Seven Kingdoms can she break the Canens Curse and free the entire Seven Kingdoms from an unimaginable future.Fire & Frost is book 2 in an epic fantasy Snow White and Cinderella retelling. This multi-POV novel is perfect for readers who enjoy dark fairy tales with complex storylines.book 1: Fog & Mistbook 2: Fire & Frostbook 3: Fae & Fable (coming 2020)book 4: Light & Dew (coming 2020)

"A curse of death upon the one who kills the heir to the Canens throne."Only the Canens Curse has stopped my stepmother, Queen Blanche, from killing me. I've always thought of the Curse as my protector, but now on the eve of my coming of age, it's somehow made my life worse-if that were even possible.For despite her abundance of magic, Blanche can't find a way to kill me without evoking the Curse. Unfortunately, that hasn't stopped her from making my life absolutely miserable. First it was lying to the country about me, then imprisoning me in my rooms at the palace, and now it's selling me into slavery. I'm certain that if the Curse weren't tempering her wrath, I'd already be dead.It would almost be a relief to be enslaved, to escape the torture that daily faces me under her thumb. The only problem is, she's sold me to her huntsman-a man who would willingly give his life for hers. And I can't tell if he cares enough about Blanche to take both our lives just to secure her as Queen. Wherever his loyalty lies, I'm certain it doesn't belong to me, the true heir to the Canens throne.But as I learn the complicated new world of slavery, an enemy prince enters my lands, chasing after his wayward sister. And their journey is soon to collide with mine in the strangest of ways...

A usurper queen on a stolen throne.A princess imprisoned, enslaved, and believed dead by her people.A foreign prince searching for his sister.Each entangled in a curse that threatens all of the Seven Kingdoms. Crown Princess Winterberry's stepmother will do anything to prevent her ascension—even if it means assassinating her. And on the eve of the princess's twenty-first birthday, Queen Blanche arrests Winterberry under false claims of treason.Although a long-standing prophecy proclaims death to anyone who kills a Canens royal, Blanche is determined to find a way. Step one goes off without a hitch: auction off the true heir as an incognito slave and send her halfway across Canens with Blanche's most trusted huntsman.But on the other side of the Seven Kingdoms, an enemy prince gambles his throne and his life, crossing into Canens after his kidnapped sister. The farther he travels, the more entangled he becomes in the Canens Curse, the slavery underworld, and Princess Winterberry herself. Soon, even he doesn't realize how much more is at stake.Enter the cursed world of the Seven Kingdoms in book one of this Snow White retelling, where you will find elements of Red Riding Hood and other beloved faery tales.

Attending Oxford University for medical school is Adrienne Talbot's lifelong dream--and it's finally coming true. She's been accepted, and she's on the flight to London when a concussion changes everything. Now, instead of traveling England before school begins, she must call upon her estranged, A-list actress mother for help. An unenthusiastic greeting leads to an extended stay when Adrienne meets her mother's new fiancé and is dragged into a world of glitz and paparazzi--by a scandal that centers around her. This scandal could not only destroy any chance of reconciliation with her mother, but ruin Adrienne's close relationships with her sisters and father back home. Desperate to find answers, Adrienne sets out upon a journey into her mother's past and begins to uncover the lies she once thought were truths.