This my first submission to Wattpad may owe some elements of verbal style, and a title (which of course is also an idea) to Dylan Thomas, but the two schools are as different as...well, as UC Berkeley and Hillsdale College! Thomas holds session in a Celtic timelessness protected from the Sassenach and his rationality by bad weather and all the Powers of Darkness; my own, nine years old though it is, in a Today still as current, and perhaps more so, than anything based on the psychobabble du jour of the Media of Mass Misinformation.
Although perhaps not as YOU have been accustomed to perceive it,dear Reader...
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.