The Outlaw Rumple Stiltskin — Jeffrey Marlin

Your choice: Spin gold out of straw (and so become Queen) or work as a kitchen slave all of your life! An arrogant gnome or gremlin offers to get the job done -- but asks for a terrible price. Do you make your deal with the Devil? How will that work out ... for you and your mill-worker boyfriend? These questions frame the only historically accurate version of the Rumple Stiltskin romance currently available. Among darker questions left unaddressed by modern renditions and fully explored here: What was Rumple's relationship with Miss Mineola, protagonist and future Queen? How did his feelings affect his judgment? How did her scheming father, radical-minded uncles and two gorgeous cousins make out? Sexual themes are tactfully handled to highlight manners and morals of the times.