The Spindle Trap

By Beka Gremikova

Can a curse save Theryn's family...or will it doom them?

Princess Theryn's sixteenth birthday is here, and with it, the looming curse that threatens to cast her entire castle into a century-long enchanted sleep. But what her court doesn't know is that the young princess is determined to trigger the curse herself--and whisk her parents away from the meddling nobles intent on splitting the king and queen apart.

Theryn is certain that her family can make a fresh start when they wake up one hundred years into the future. But what she doesn't know is that curses often carry dark secrets behind their casting...and even a century isn't far enough to run from them.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Beka Gremikova
• Release date: Mar 18, 2024
• ISBN: 9798224524860

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The Spindle Trap

Beka Gremikova

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Copyright © 2024 by Beka Gremikova

First published in the Perchance to Dream anthology from Ye Olde Dragon Books.

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Book Cover Design by Beka Gremikova

Content Warning: Please be advised that this story deals with the difficult subject of divorce from the point of view of a young adult caught in the middle.

For all those involved in the 1998 version of The Parent Trap, the movie that helped inspire me to write this story.

The Spindle Trap

By Beka Gremikova

Today, Theryn would curse her family.

And today, she would save them.

She closed the door of the tower room and slid the bolt in place—more out of habit than any real fear she’d be interrupted. The only people left in the palace were her parents, herself, and her loyal maid, Hylda. In celebration of Theryn’s momentous sixteenth birthday—which also happened to be the sixteenth anniversary of her