Fantasy Series Author Katharina Gerlach
Overview of Treasures Retold:
These fairy tales are all set into a world where magic is declining while steam engine technology is on the rise. Naturally, not all kingdoms are equally advanced. Thus, there are stories that resemble traditional fairy tales and others that contain many steampunk elements. I very much hope you will like the mixture. More in the future from this series.
The King’s Mechanic: Beauty and the Beast (Treasures Retold Book 3) (English Edition)
Blurb:
Once upon a time in a world where magic and technology collide with unexpected consequences…
After her father is caught in the act of stealing a jeweled rose, Luna and her brother face a penalty worse than execution unless she works as the king’s mechanic. With her brother’s safety in mind, Luna does her best to please the king, trying to ignore his best friend, who is very interested in bedding her. As if these troubles weren’t enough, the king crashes a machine she considered safe to use and nearly dies. Can she keep him alive long enough to avert danger to herself, her brother, and possibly the whole kingdom?
What if Charles Perrault’s Beauty can do more than soften the heart of a beast?
The Stepmother: Little Brother, Little Sister (Treasures Retold Book 2)
Blurb:
Once upon a time in a world where magic and technology collide with unexpected consequences…
Even with her powers as a witch, Isabel cannot find a trace of her stepchildren. Desperate, she crosses the Old Forest, filled with as much malignant as benevolent magic, to reach the distant mountain kingdom she left as a young girl when her magical powers manifested. She soon realizes that a sinister creature holds the unsuspecting kingdom in thrall. It will take all she’s able to give to save her children and the kingdom she once loved.
What if the Brothers Grimm painted a wrong portrait of the stepmother in the original tale of “Little Brother, Little Sister”?
The book includes a bonus story and the original fairy tale.
The Dwarf and the Twins: Snow White and Rose Red (Treasures Retold Book 1)
Blurb:
Once upon a time in a world where magic and technology collide with unexpected consequences…
When Martin helps a pregnant woman to flee from the king’s men, he doesn’t know that the twins she bears will change his solitary life forever.
What if the Brother’s Grimm misunderstood the dwarf in the original tale of “Snow White and Rose Red”?
The book includes a bonus story and the original fairy tale.
More in this series from this author to come, stay tuned.
Read my interview with the author here.
Katharina Gerlach was born in Germany in 1968. She and her three younger brothers grew up in the middle of a forest in the heart of the Luneburgian Heather. After romping through the forest with imagination as her guide, the tomboy learned to read and disappeared into magical adventures, past times or eerie fairytale woods.
She didn’t stop at reading. During her training as a landscape gardener, she wrote her first novel, a manuscript full of a beginner’s mistakes. Fortunately, she found books on Creative Writing and soon her stories improved. For a while, reality interfered with her writing but after finishing a degree in forestry and a PhD in Science she returned to her vocation. She likes to write Fantasy, Science Fiction and Historical Novels for all age groups.
At present, she is writing at her next project in a small house near Hildesheim, Germany, where she lives with her husband, three children and a dog.
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One of my favorite reads of Cat’s is a science fiction fantasy set in a frozen world. Paralan’s Children and Hero’s Wanted, an anthology-3 short fantasy stories.
Temping me with what I love most? Not fair. I guess I’d better go shopping and feed the vice. 🙂
Anna from Elements of Writing
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