TRIGGER WARNING BEFORE READING: I've labelled this story 'Mature' for a reason. There are graphic descriptions of violence and outright abuse, and mentions of rape, further abuse, and self-harm, among other dark things.
Prologue
There is no better feeling than pulling a blade out of a cold, dying body. Seeing the dark, almost black blood stream, while the poor, forsaken soul begs for their pitiful existence to continue. And it feels so good to deny them that. To rear back one last time and drive your weapon through their once beating heart. To know that every life you take, you've saved countless others from the clutches of death herself.
“Do you know what it feels like to lose the most important person in your life?”
“I do.”
“Would you do anything to get them back?”
“I will.”
“Would you hunt a thousand evils, slay a thousand horrors and face a thousand terrors, just to see them once more?”
“I am.”
This is a story.
A story of a girl named Rebecca Twain.
The story of her fate.
Of her journey.
And of her revenge.
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.