This wasn't supposed to happen.
Sampaguita Lewis tried her best to stay out of trouble. No skipping school, no bad grades. After all, she didn't want to make things harder on her mother.
Su-Jin Park tried their best to get into trouble. Drugs, fights, double denim. After all, they loved to piss of their very uptight family in any way possible.
But when a confrontation in the woods goes wrong, the two are thrust into a world they didn't know existed. They're hunted by a secret society with a not so secret leader, and everyone seems to be out to get them.
As the pair find themselves on the run, they struggle to stay alive, as love, power, and deceit all try to bring them down. All they know is that they are the Ones From the Forest.
Noor, a dancer in the Royal Court of the Al-Yauzhan Empire wants nothing more than to pay off her debts and lead a nice, simple life-but a chance encounter with the crown prince and his brother brings her into the dangerous world of court politics. As Noor and the princes investigate their uncle and cousin's possible treason, she grows closer to the crown prince, but in order to save the kingdom and the person she loves, Noor will have to risk everything...
A romantic adventure set in an imagined Arabic kingdom, THE DANCING GIRL is a story of court intrigues, romantic entanglements, and secret meetings as Noor and her best friend Amir try to help the princes they're falling for expose corrupt court officials with plans to seize the throne. Noor and Amir are close to having everything they've ever dreamed of...now all they need to do is survive.