Handsome princes beware!!! A curious 'Once Upon a Time' tale with a difference. In the Post-enchanted fairytale kingdom of 'Roc' stands the 'Academy of Happy Ever After' - a place where students train to become the next generation of dashing heroes and fair maidens, complete with certificates and credentials for a readymade happy ever after. Elizabeth Marianne Cropwell, a struggling princess-to-be, is in trouble regarding her academic progress. Following a freak mishap with a tax-dodging frog, Lizzy's graduation now depends on her both becoming a Fair Maiden and being rescued by a dashing Hero...without the academy's safety net. Assisted by her companions, an illegal helpline, a resourceful shrubbery and a horde of disenfranchised toads, Lizzy sets out to prove the academy wrong, live out her fantasies and bring about a happy ending her own way. But this is easier said than done - and Lizzy's mission risks exposing a dark and sinister secret that could destroy the concept of 'happy endings' forever...

1952 - pre-war soccer star and RAF fly-boy cum POW Eddie Keyworth is found dead in the flat lands of Eastern England. Good guy cop David Cropwell and feisty MI5 man Gordon Pye search communist Poland for the shadow of the man they say got too close to his German captors. And what links Eddie with a former Nazi pin-up hero, the changling Jewish newsagent and the daughter of anti-Hitlerite resistor who's died once already? And what about Stemp - the bad apple - the ruthless ex-commando who's playing his own game for Moscow. Out of the besieged city of Breslau into the cold war world of Wroclaw comes an answer - of sorts.

The Enchantless Tale of Lizzy Cropwell

Handsome princes beware!!! A curious ‘Once Upon a Time’ tale with a difference.

In the Post-enchanted fairytale kingdom of ‘Roc’ stands the ‘Academy of Happy Ever After’ – a place where students train to become the next generation of dashing heroes and fair maidens, complete with certificates and credentials for a readymade happy ever after.

Elizabeth Marianne Cropwell, a struggling princess-to-be, is in trouble regarding her academic progress. Following a freak mishap with a tax-dodging frog, Lizzy’s graduation now depends on her both becoming a Fair Maiden and being rescued by a dashing Hero…without the academy’s safety net.

Assisted by her companions, an illegal helpline, a resourceful shrubbery and a horde of disenfranchised toads, Lizzy sets out to prove the academy wrong, live out her fantasies and bring about a happy ending her own way.

But this is easier said than done - and Lizzy’s mission risks exposing a dark and sinister secret that could destroy the concept of ‘happy endings’ forever...