Sometimes the monsters at home are more terrifying than the ones from your childhood stories.
Isolated in a desert town, Anita Lucero has grown up with nowhere to run and nobody to turn to when things got ugly at home. That is, until she started looking in places that shouldn't exist.
Spurred into drastic action, she lands herself in an extraordinary new world described simply as "the Vale" by its residents. Finding herself surrounded by people and places both eerily familiar and breathtakingly alien, Anita launches into an adventure of fantastic discovery and grim revelation that will lead her to freedom at a price she may not be willing to pay.
This is an original story still in the early stages of being written. While not explicit, it does involve mature themes such as domestic abuse, child abuse, and murder. Please read with caution if these are difficult topics for you. Also, as implied by the cover, here there be spiders.
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.