Thirteen-year-old Pietrek Zamoyski had no idea how enormous the consequences would be when he began trying to uncover whatever juicy secret his parents were clearly keeping.
Yet he persisted in uncovering it. Through stern fathers, overly-lax teachers, colloquial maids, locked filing cabinets in rooms he had no business being in, a backstabbing friend or two, and increasing lurches in his stomach.
His pigheaded insistence on outing the truth may have resulted in him causing his own downfall. Or he may have accidentally galvanized himself to later change his country for the better. Or it may have simply been a neutral, if highly unusual, string of occurrences.
Cynically narrated by nineteen-year-old Pietr, this is the short yet extended story of how he got from where he was to the completely different place no one would have guessed he'd end up.
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.