Rose & Lily: A Sapphic Fairytale

By K.D. West

A fairytale where the princess gets the heroine.

Rose is the youngest of Sir Roland's three children, and the best beloved. When her father fails to come back from an attempt to rescue the princess from a neighboring kingdom from the notorious and mysterious Black Knight, Rose does not hesitate to strap on her father's old armor, the red faded almost to invisibility, and ride into the dark forest to help him.

There she encounters the Black Knight herself. Once she has defeated him, she learns his terrible secret, as well as her father's awful fate.

It is left to Rose, then, to rescue Princess Lily from the highest tower of the knight's castle. When she arrives there, she is stunned to find the most beautiful creature that she has ever beheld, cursed to sleep until love's true kiss can wake her.

There don't seem to have been any same-sex fairytales in the days when the Brothers Grimm were gathering stories — or if there were, no one recorded them. It's up to us, then, to write them!

A work- and family-safe lesbian folktale.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Stillpoint Digital Press
• Release date: Jun 11, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311315199

K.D. West

K.D. West is an Amazon best-selling author of contemporary short fiction, a teacher, and a performer living in a small suburb of a big city in the American West: "Not a huge amount to say -- I'm an author of steamy stories who happens to be a teacher; these things don't mix well in public, so I tend to be fairly quiet about real life in my blogging. I am, however, interested in all sorts of things -- books, writing, theater, mythology, and, obviously, erotica! I'm a huge reader of genre fiction -- mostly mysteries and fantasy, but also science fiction and historical romance." West is writing two intertwined series involving a young woman and her older lover (the Juliet Takes Flight and Erotic Tales: Letters to Allison stories), a series of stories about friends discovering that they can become much more (Friendly Ménage Tales), and a series of stories that the Brothers Grimm might have collected, if there had been traditional tales where the heroine got the princess (Sapphic Fairytales). Also on the way: an erotic paranormal/urban fantasy novel involving a long lost friend coming all-but-literally back from the dead, and showing a happily married couple just what they'd been missing. Say hello at K.D. West’s blog (kdwestwrites.wordpress.com)!

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Rose & Lily:

A Sapphic Fairytale

by

K. D. West

Copyright © 2014, Stillpoint Digital Press (stillpointdigital.com)

Published by Stillpoint/Eros on Smashwords

All rights reserved

This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual people, places or events is purely coincidental.

By K.D. West

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Rose & Lily

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Rose, Rose, Rose Red

Will I ever see thee wed?

I will marry at my will, sire,

At my will.

Sir Roland was a rare thing: a lord and knight beloved of his tenants and respected by his peers. The people of his valley loved him because he enforced the law with honor and justice, and kept the peace with an even, fair hand, raising his sword to none who did not deserve it. The knights and barons of the kingdom respected him because he was a formidable warrior and a strong voice at court for reason and compassion.

His three children were his pride:

Reviews for Rose & Lily

[Riley · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This was lovely from start to finish! My only quibble is that, well...let’s just say I am not the biggest fan of pink. Which is to say, no issue at all - especially as it had such an important, understandable role in the story, rather than being shoehorned in because “girl=pink”.