num_pages: 226
description: Princess Rinda of Balinore knows of only one way to get her cold fathers attention  to be an obnoxious spoiled princess. When she finds out that the king plan to marrying her off to a far-flung nobleman she puts on her best bratty show in front of the entire court. But Rindas plan backfires and she soon finds herself married to the most ineligible man ever. Her new husband is monastery raised poor as dirt and a traveling minstrel.A very very bad traveling minstrel.But Alek isnt what he seems like on the surface and neither is Rinda. She wont take this marriage lying down and schemes to find herself a new husband  a king. But as she and Alek travel together they learn that not only are appearances deceiving but goals can change in the blink of an eye and love can get in the way of the strongest plansThe Scarecrow King is a romantic retelling of the King Thrushbeard fairy tale.
language: English
title: The Scarecrow King
publisher: Jill Myles