SOLVED. YA/children's fantasy. Read in 1990s. Modern girl is transported to medieval castle & groomed as princess. [s]

[Christy]

This book was a middle-school aged read for me back in the 1990s - a relatively short chapter book. The protagonist, a modern girl, gets magically transported to a medieval castle, where she is dressed and treated like a princess. This is all well and good... until she finds out that she's not the first girl that this has happened to. The girls are being groomed & adopted as princesses in order to be sacrificed. There's a king who acts as the girl's father, who is uneasy about the situation, but also hardened to it because it's been going on for so long; and an evil sorcerer type who is transporting the girls and convincing the king that the sacrifices are necessary.

[Y]

Can't recall if it hits upon all the points you mentioned, but perhaps it's The Seventh Princess by Nick Sullivan?

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Christy, are you still looking for this or did you find it?

[Christy]

Sorry for abandoning this! This looks like it's the one I was thinking of, thank you!

[Kris]

One Goodreads reviewer of The Seventh Princess by Nick Sullivan says: "It’s a standard fantasy world filled with royalty and magic but there’s darker elements as well; such as the harpies that have the faces of young girls and the sacrifice that must be made every full moon..."

Should we mark your request as Solved?

[Christy]

Yes please

[Kris]

Great. Glad you found your book, Christy.