Maisie Fable had gone to the countryside for one simple reason: she couldn't write anymore.
After inheriting her grandmother's beautiful villa and bed-and-breakfast in the sleepy town of Fable Hollow, she expected quiet mornings, peaceful gardens, and enough inspiration to break through her terrible writer's block.
What she didn't expect was for the inn to come alive at midnight.
Doors appeared where there had been walls. Strange guests arrived dressed like characters from fairy tales. Talking animals wandered through the halls. And beyond a hidden entrance was an entirely different world filled with magic, castles, witches, fairies, dragons, and royalty.
Then there was Prince Cassian.
Handsome, mysterious, annoyingly composed—and definitely not the sort of man Maisie had expected to find staying at her grandmother's inn.
He was supposed to stay for one night.
But somehow, the prince kept coming back.
Soon, Maisie found herself sharing tea with him, exploring enchanted gardens, attending royal balls, arguing with opinionated magical creatures, and discovering a huge, majestic palace library she'd only read about in books or watched in movies.
As her writer's block disappears, something else begins to change.
The prince who first arrived as a mysterious royal guest is slowly becoming her closest friend, her favorite distraction, and perhaps the hero of a love story she never planned to write.
But in a world where fairy tales are real, Maisie is about to discover that happily-ever-after might not be something found in a book.
Sometimes, it walks through your door.