It is the year 2290. Humanity has been extinct for years, and birds have taken over the planet Earth and renamed it Mondeseaux. The planet is ruled by the incredibly ruthless bird king, a Great Horned Owl named Strix, who takes birds that do not meet his standards and locks them up in a prison known as Ragadon, where they are doomed to die in a scheduled number of days.
Toco is one of those birds.
An optimistic toco toucan, he has been marked with the number 55, and is soon scheduled to die as an outcast. But with the help of an awkward bald eagle named Haliaeetus and a sophisticated yet silly raven named Corbin, along with a slew of other birds that have been labeled as "Halaforts", Toco discovers a place far from Mondeseaux's capital city of Passerina. A place known as the Perrenial Paradise, where sanctuary is guaranteed to all birds. Desperate to make it there, he decides to escape after nearly seeing one of his friends die at the talons of Strix- but now he's a fugitive. And with Strix and the members of the King's Court after him, he and the other birds must journey across Mondeseaux, along the way discovering the things that the humans left behind, facing multiple obstacles, and realizing that they're not the only ones who have been persecuted...
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.