When Ivetta takes a job as a maid at the palace, she ends up in the employ of Prince Chevalier Michel. There’s more to the Brutal Beast than meets the eye, and an unlikely romance blossoms.

All Ivetta wants is a steady paycheck and consistent hours. Her mother’s health is failing fast, and she has to earn enough money to keep paying the mounting doctor's bills. Getting a job as a palace maid seems like the answer she needs, even if she has a long commute.

Prince Chevalier, the Second Prince of Rhodolite, has a reputation for being a cruel, heartless monster. If it weren’t for her circumstances, Ivetta would have quit after the first day.

She never expects him to come to her rescue when disaster strikes.

Suddenly, he’s the only person with whom she truly feels safe, allowing the roots of an unlikely and impossible romance to take hold. Threats force them closer together, and the mysteries of the past come to bear. A glimmer of hope for a brighter future blossoms in the darkness.

Maybe, on the other side of pain and heartbreak, is the fairytale ending Ivetta never dreamed was possible.

Tales of Feathers and Flora

00: A World of Feathers and Flora

0: A Swan’s Tale

1: A Dove’s Tale

2: A Beast's Tale

3: A Warped Tale

4: A Conqueror’s Tale

5: ​​​​​​​A Bouquet of Tales

A Dove’s Tale

Act 1: The Maid

Act 2: The Intermission

Act 3: The Princess

Act 4: The Queen

This is a fan-blind, standalone fanfiction, meaning no prior knowledge of the game or any of the other books in this family is required to understand and enjoy this story.

Content/Trigger Warnings

None of my stories contain profanity or explicit sexual content, but this book contains mature themes and content, including depictions or mentions of:

- Abuse and Relationships: arranged marriage, child abuse, emotional abuse, infidelity, physical abuse, verbal abuse

- Alcohol and Drugs: alcohol consumption

- Animal Death and Cruelty: animal death

- Blood, Injury & Medical: blood, chronic illness, dismemberment, gore, life-changing injury, medical treatment, physical injuries, scars, weight loss

- Death and Loss: death, death of a loved one, grief depiction

- Hate, Discrimination & Oppression: classism, poverty, sexism, slavery, workplace harassment, xenophobia

- Mental Health and Suicide: anxiety, anxiety attacks, attempted suicide, cutting, depression, eating disorders, nightmares, panic attacks, post-traumatic stress disorder, self-harm, sleep disorders, suicide, suicidal ideation, trauma

- Pregnancy and Childbirth: breastfeeding, childbirth, pregnancy

- Sex and Sexual Violence: non-explicit sexual content, rape, sexual assault, sexual harassment, sexual predator, sex work, sex-worker shaming

- Violence and Crime: abduction, attempted murder, captivity, confinement, disappearance of a loved one, knives, murder, physical assault, poisoning, stalking, swords, torture, whipping

- War and Genocide: massacres, military service, military violence, war themes

Estimated Reading Times:

Act 1: The Maid (14 hours, 44 minutes)

Act 2: The Intermission (4 hours, 53 minutes)

Act 3: The Princess (11 hours, 57 minutes)

Act 4: The Queen (7 hours, 29 minutes)

Credits

Based on the otome game Ikémen Prince: Beauty and Her Beast. Character images come from the game. All other graphics created by me using Canva unless otherwise cited.