Formula for fairy-tale love: one adventurous heroine + one tortured but noble hero = happily ever after. Once upon a Princess Duet includes two paranormal romance fairy-tale novellas.

For all the innate complications involved in finding the secret to blissful fairy-tale love with shape-shifters, two wise and discerning princesses trust their hearts instead of their eyes and fall in love with the unlikeliest of princes.

Heart of Stone

In the ruins of a country destroyed by a curse, Princess Leesa goes looking for a way to help her people. Desperate to find an item of value to trade for supplies, she trespasses into an abandoned palace. There, she finds more than she bargained for when she encounters a lonely gargoyle who offers to provide her with everything she needs...for a price.

A gargoyle, Willem is dreadfully lonely and longing for human companionship. Promising the beautiful Leesa riches, he begs her to stay with him for a time. With so many to provide for, she can't refuse and soon learns that looks can be deceiving.

The steep price to be paid to break the spell that cursed him into existence as a gargoyle may be more than Leesa is willing or able to pay. But her choice offers no second chances: Either she gains back what she's been mourning, or she loses everything she's ever wanted...for all time.

Beauty and the Faun

In order to settle their debts, Kayla's rich uncle and aunt arrange for her to marry an ill-reputed prince from another land.

The idea of marrying someone she's never even met holds no appeal for Kayla. Planning to hide in the Great Forest, she meets Del, a faun shifter who looks forward to teaching her a few things about life and love.

Even if she's fallen in love with Del, how can she hide from her duty to marry the prince, when her own mother will suffer if she refuses?