Deacon Day wakes up to see his phone is dead, he overslept, and hundreds of inter-dimensional rifts have opened all across Australia, causing fantastical feral creatures to invade, attacking any humans that they see.
All and all, not a great day.
After escaping the city, he's taken to a refugee camp but is soon forced to leave. He travels across the Badlands searching for answers where he has a run in with a pair of Beasts, befriends strangers, steals a bus, and discovers the true origin of the rifts.
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.