Title image for the book "The Ballad of the Grey Swan".

The Ballad of the Grey Swan

Jeyreme Corbeau is the put-upon third son of Baron Stefan Corbeau, and the person who handles all the work of ruling the barony that his father doesn’t want to do.

The cover of The Ballad of the Grey Swan, showing our two protagonists, Jey the Grey Swan, and her lover Maisie.

When a highwaywoman calling herself the Grey Swan starts robbing merchants on the Barony’s trade road, the Baron is finally roused to action and orders Jeyreme to capture her.

What the Baron doesn’t know is that his third son is actually a transgender woman… and that to fund her plans to run away with her lover, the innkeeper’s daughter Maisie, and to be herself, she’s taken up the mantle of the Grey Swan!

When the impatient Baron makes a rash decision that risks the safety of the entire Barony, Jey will need to keep true to herself and find a way to survive the trials ahead of her.

Add in the watching eyes of otherworldly beings, and Jey and Maisie might just survive, but not unchanged…

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Warning! The Ballad of the Grey Swan contains:

  • violence
  • theft
  • parental verbal abuse
  • erotic content
  • implied torture
  • abusive language
  • religious trauma

On the other hand, this novel also contains:

  • romance
  • heroism
  • joy
  • love
  • decent parents
  • magical animals
  • faeries who aren’t obviously trying to screw people over
  • magic (including a magical duel)
  • enthusiastically consensual sex.

So you can decide for yourself if this book is suitable for you!

Now available as an ebook and a paperback!

Also available on Itch.io!

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