Invitation
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In the land of Antara, a ball is held every few years for young royals, mainly to give the poorer people an illusion in thinking they have a chance to go higher in class rank.
For 21-year-old Sapphire, social class and royals were never her thing, she preferred to spend her days walking in the forest behind her house and mending to the animals along with her parents, unlike her two sisters who care nothing for others but themselves and their looks.
When Sapphire and one of her sisters receive an invitation she feels her luck slowly slipping out, she is invited to the ball for the 28-year-old Prince Xander 29 other maidens.
Her plan is too lay low and let the night go by without any interaction, but what happens she catches Prince Xander staring at her....her life as she knew it is now changed forever.
Join Sapphire on her journey of rivalry, betrayal, jealousy and most importantly self-growth.
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