Tangled Sails

Displaced Fairytales

by Annette K. Larsen

Her healing touch saved others—but who can save her?



Lyrielle has one purpose in life—to heal others. Kept in a tower by her aunt and only allowed to interact with those who need the healing power of her hair, she has lived the last six years separated from the world. Finally forced to escape the only way she can, Lyrielle begins her climb down the tower—but loses her grip.



Instead of falling to her death, she falls from her tower and out of her world, crashing into the waves of an ocean she’s never seen before. Now she must learn to trust the prince who pulled her from the sea, but she’s terrified to reveal too much of herself lest he use her the way everyone else has.



While searching for the mermaid who saved his life, Prince Tavric is shocked when he pulls a girl with impossibly long hair from the ocean. Confused by her sudden appearance in his kingdom, but drawn to her fascination with the world he takes for granted, Tavric is anxious to show her the wonders outside her tower. But his father is dying, and knowing he will take the throne all too soon, he worries if falling for Lyri means foisting a burden on her for which she cannot possibly be prepared.



When someone from Lyri’s world threatens to tear her from the new life she’s built, will Tavric be able to keep her safe, or will she be forced back to the life she fled?



A spellbinding and heart wrenching mashup of Rapunzel and The Little Mermaid, Tangled Sails explores the weight of our gifts and the strength of accepting help.


Torn from one fairytale and trapped in the Displaced Fairytales series is a multi-author fairytale retelling series of standalones from your favorite swoony, closed-door young adult romance authors.

Kindle Edition

Expected publication March 10, 2026

About the author

I love words. I always have. In songs, in poems, in books, in movies—words move me. In my younger years, I dabbled in writing as a therapy and an escape, but I never expected it to become more than that. While deep in the depths of mommying several small children, I took seven years to write my first book, Just Ella. During that time, I taught myself how to write a novel through a whole lot of trial and error. Not the most time-efficient method, but it gave me an education I wouldn’t have received from a class or a how-to book. Something about the struggle of writing without a formula or rules worked for me. I wrote for me. I wrote from my heart space, and I think that’s the reason that Just Ella has found room in so many of my readers’ heart spaces.

I write clean romance because I love it. I love the discovery of new love. I love the relationship building that’s done with looks, words, brushing fingers, and tentative kisses. Jane Eyre is the hero of my youth and taught me that being true to yourself and clinging to your convictions will be hard, but it will bring you more genuine happiness than giving up on yourself ever can.

I am an extraordinarily happy wife, and a mother of five kids. I’ve lived in Utah, Arizona, Missouri, and Virginia, but my heart is now firmly ensconced in Idaho where we’ve built a home and a community.

I love chocolate, waterfalls, pretty teacups, the sight and sound of ocean waves, and most especially my husband and my five littles. I love books that leave me with a sigh of contentment, and I aspire to write stories that do the same for my readers.

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