This story is under a major re-write - it is being expanded.
A wedding, a war, winners and losers; death; looting; burning; destroying. It wasn't supposed to happen this way...
Left a widow on the night of her wedding, Marissa, almost 17, finds herself escaping from the battle with her the eight-year-old girl who became her step-daughter just a few hours ago...
Taking heed to the queen's words to keep positive, to pray and to seek peace, Marissa has to step out into a life she has never known...
No, it wasn't supposed to happen this way...