Once Upon an Enchanted Castle

Series: Enchanted Realms, Book 4
Genre: Fantasy Romance – A Beauty and the Beast Fairy Tale Retelling
Heat Level: Sweet Romance 🔥
Release Date: May 30, 2025
Available in: eBook, paperback, audiobook

Voted #4 Readers’ Choice for Best Retellings of 2025 by the Pawn to Player review site!

This book is related to the Enchanted Realms series and can be read as a stand-alone.

Once Upon a Time… in the provincial town of Driftbell

A reclusive prince doomed to live as part beast, part man. A beautiful scribe with a talent for translating old texts. And an ancient book that could be the key to breaking his curse.

Isabella “Bella” Rinaldi has an enchanting gift—the ability to translate any ancient text from old, forgotten languages. She spends her days in extravagant libraries of the most affluent who pay exorbitant sums for those books and her services. But when her father’s merchant ships are destroyed and their port city home burned to the ground, they uproot and move to a small countryside town to start anew. She leaves behind the ostentatious libraries and her love of dusty scrolls and tomes save one age-old text, filled with cryptic symbols and arcane incantations she has been unable to translate.

The reclusive Prince Leopold has long suffered a terrible curse—to live as half man, half beast. Every full moon, he transforms into a majestic yet fearsome werewolf. For decades, he has looked for a way to free himself from his horrifying transformation but to no avail. When his path inadvertently crosses with Bella in the village’s book shop, he realizes the text she is trying to sell may be the key to breaking his curse. He convinces her to keep the book and hires her to translate it for him.

As she delves into its pages, Bella realizes the text holds the key to breaking the curse that bound the beast each full moon. Time becomes their greatest adversary, and the curse threatens to consume Leopold for all time. Their destinies intertwine in ways they never imagine. As she begins to unravel its mysteries, they journey through the pages of a dark enchantment that requires trust, courage, and love—the most powerful magic of all. Will she be able to unlock the power within the ancient text before it’s too late?

Find out what happens next! Read the BONUS chapter here!

Audiobook narrated by Michelle Miles

★★★★ “I loved the connection between Bella and Leopold! It is definitely slow burn but the way the author writes the story, there is an intimacy that is drawn out between the two.”

★★★★ “Their slow burn builds with quiet intensity and respects the wounds they both carry in a way that I love. Some books rush to fix after building up the characters’ back story, but the text Bella translates isn’t just a plot device to move us along; it mirrors the emotional decoding between them.”

★★★★★ “Oh my goodness, this was so good! I couldn’t stop reading until I was finished! It is 4am and I’ve read all night. I had to know how it all ended!!”

★★★★★ “An exciting, romantic fairytale retelling with a bit of fae mixed in to it.”