The Inventor and the Phoenix

Rodney Copperbottom is known to be a funny boy in the town; preferring reading and inventing things rather than hunting and finding wives. It doesn't make things better that Phineas T. Ratchet has his eyes set on him to be his husband. His wish for more than a provincial life starts to come to life when Cappy, his longtime friend, goes missing and stumbles across a castle hidden from the public eye, where he finds her locked up in the dungeon. Unwilling to let her suffer a cold death, Rodney trades his life for hers to a young Princess. A devastatingly beautiful Princess cursed to be a Phoenix forever if the last petal of an Enchanted Rose falls. Now, as the days pass by, Rodney couldn’t bring himself to hate the fair Princess, whose heart burns brighter than her stubbornness.