num_pages: 145
description: Rosalind always shared her birthday with her fathers horses but she never expected to share their fate.Sheltered and pampered beautiful Rosalind of Lovana turns eighteen with fluttering excitement. Nobles and dignitaries across the land are to celebrate with herincluding young King Philip of Mallinae whom she secretly adores.But instead of a party she descends to an auction where she is the prize up for bid. Incensed she ridicules the guests slinging a willfully hurtful barb at Philip in their midst.Her father enraged to have his moneymaking schemes thus ruined delivers a seething ultimatum: Rosalind must marry a beggar that very night or she dies.This novella is based on King Thrushbeard by the Brothers Grimm.
language: English
title: Maid and Minstrel
publisher: Eulalia Skye Press