The Two Monarchies Sequence

In prequel Wolfskin, a maiden and a wolf must defeat an increasingly erratic sorceress who has a score to settle with the wolf. Shades of Little Red Riding Hood.

Spindle introduces us to a maiden and her hair, of which there is an overabundance, and the enchanter who woke her from her sleep with a kiss--of which there are also an overabundance, in the opinion of the maiden. This is Rapunzel and Sleeping Beauty.

In Blackfoot, we learn what became of all those cats and so does our slightly younger maiden, who has to deal with them, an enchanted castle, her annoying best friend, and a wizard with a love for socks. There is a faint hint of Puss in Boots to this one.

Staff and Crown picks up very shortly after Blackfoot, allowing our maiden to go to finishing school--at which fine establishment she learns the rudimentaries of deportment, statecraft, and the safe handling of explosives. This is entirely a magic boarding school book and I make no apologies.

Clockwork Magician gives our maiden from Blackfoot's awful best friend the chance to realise that perhaps he needs to learn to listen, wait, and hold his temper. It would also help if he would stop saying nasty things, but even that won't be enough to save the entire world from being dissolved due to an error in his time-travel machinery if he doesn't work together with a certain maiden whom he blames for all ills. There are vague Hansel and Gretel vibes here.

Masque reintroduces a secondary maiden from Staff and Crown, who has her own problems to solve--and when she is finished with those, she will certainly go looking for others. That murder that the Captain of the Guard is investigating, for example... Think Beauty and the Beast but with bloody bodies turning up everywhere.

In Castle and Key, the maiden of Masque's brash younger sister is thrown into a gothic country manor, where she has to stash her best friend in a pantry, assist the main maiden in her attempts not to die, and convince a hero that he doesn't have to be quite so broody. She would also prefer not to die in the attempt. This one is Bluebeard as you never read it before.