Michelle Levigne, Author

The enchanted castle first appeared in the short story, Daughter of the Beastly Beauty, in the first anthology from Ye Olde Dragon Books, When Your Beauty IS The Beast -- a collection of short stories based on the theme of Beauty & the Beast.

The stories keep growing:Daughter of the Beastly Beauty, Tower to Tower, Patches, Beauty in a Box, Cure For the Creature, Red Wolf, To Unsee the Seen, The Soul of the House, and True Love's Pigs

These stories are the adventures of Belladonna, known as 'Na, daughter of the lord and lady of the enchanted castle. References are made to the story of Lady Ashlyn and Lord Zared, with hints of how they came to the enchanted castle, in the enchanted forest.


Well, THEIR stories needed to be told.

LIARS' QUEST and THE BEASTLY BEAUTY are Lady Ashlyn's stories, how an orphan servant girl named Ash went on a quest and found, was captured by, and tamed the enchanted castle. Then we have the stories of Zared, how he was kidnapped and discovered his inborn magic, and finally escaped to save his life, and stumbled into the enchanted castle just when Ash needed him most. First is Enchanting the Prince, followed by DIsenchanting the Prince in 2026. And of course, more stories will follow as more characters tap me on the shoulder or whack me upside the head and demand that their stories be told.
Available in print, ebook, and audio.

And even better ... we now have stories about 'Na as a little girl. Reference was made to her pet dragon Smedley, in the very first story -- so we have 2 short stories so far about Smedley and 'Na: a dragon and his girl. First is The Scent of Adventure, followed by In the Garden of Always Winter. The current work-in-progress is a full-length book of the adventures of Smedley and 'Na, from when he hatches, hopefully with a coloring book companion. We'll see what happens as the stories get written down..........
Scent is available in print, ebook, and audio, while Garden is only ebook and audio.

Some of the short stories are available in ebook and audio, with the rest slowly making the transition.... although plans are in the works to gather them into a deluxe volume, possibly with illustrations. What do you think of the title, Belladonna Tales?

LIARS' QUEST

Ash is an orphan servant girl who has been disguised as a boy since she was fished out of a flood when she was a toddler. Now, however, her body is maturing and starting to betray her. Before that can happen, Lathia, a spoiled brat daughter of a nobleman, is terrorizing the boy servants with her flirtatious games. When she corners Ash and doesn't get the demanded kiss, she claims Ash assaulted her. The only way Ash can defend herself is to reveal her secret. An interfering traveling judge gets involved and declares both girls are liars. He assigns them a quest to prove who is more innocent or less guilty. Both girls are given a magic ring, to monitor their activities and keep track of them as they fulfill the requirements of the quest. Ash immediately makes friends with the spirit of the ring and they become allies as she flees the castle with the assistance of a manic bunny named Fang, to avoid being forced to travel with Lathia as her servant.

The ring and other people along the way can detect magic potential in Ash, and this leads to problems as well as allies and friends who try to contirbute to her magical education. Numerous times, Ash is warned to avoid the enchanted castle. Trying to follow that advice and succeeding are two different things.

From  Ye Olde Dragon Books.

THE BEASTLY BEAUTY

Ash was warned, and she tried to be careful, but with the Purple Sky magicians hunting her to carry out Lathia's vendetta, there were only so many options open to her. The magic awakening in her blood and breaking free of the binding spells of her enemies made her even more vulnerable to trouble. And attractive to new allies and new enemies.

When she rode through the wrong magical doorway and found herself in the enchanted forest, Ash knew she needed to find her way out as quickly as possible. The enchanted castle, however, had other ideas. It needed a princess, and clever, resourceful, magical Ash was just what it had been waiting for. She refused to be a princess, but the castle apparently wasn't listening.

As she gained new allies and discovered just what clever traps awaited her, Ash settled in for a battle of wills that might occupy her for the rest of her life. Was it any wonder that when her only freedom lay in being beastly, she dove into the magic and the mask … and maybe enjoyed it just a little too much?

ENCHANTING THE PRINCE

Zair was thirteen when he was kidnapped and trained to be a Shadow -- to stand in for Crown Prince Anwir in dangerous situations. Magicians broke the rules of magic when they wove illusion spells around him, so he would walk and talk and sound and look like Anwir, The two boys were meant to be friends, companions, perhaps the only true friend either one would ever have.

Magic in the kingdom of Dorwain was broken, the old ways purged, forgotten, or warped. The magicians made mistakes. Some fatal. However, when they used the dust of a shattered magic mirror as the base of their spells, that proved to be Zair's only hope for survival and escape.

Despite the destruction of her physical body, Viza the magic mirror was alive in her dust. Zair could hear her, proving the strength of his sleeping, inborn magic. She became his friend and teacher. Together, they sought a way to escape. The magic awakening in Zair proved he had royal blood, with a claim to the throne. That made him a threat to the current king. He needed to break the growing web of spells that imprisoned him, and reclaim his own face before time ran out.