"Maybe… someday, you should come take the throne back from Rosalind and her dreadful daughters. It’s rightfully yours. I never liked them anyway.” He said.
“Maybe someday…” I answered.
In this Cinderella twist, Princess Ella of Kucera is a pretty young girl. Her mother recently passed away, but she has her father still... then he get's married to a woman named Rosalind who is all out for power and she hates Ella. Rosalind's two daughters move in with Ella and her father as well. Eventually Rosalind makes a ton of new rules for Ella to follow. When she accidentally breaks one, she awaits her punishment that is to be given as soon as her father returns. Then once word reaches Ella that her father's ship was lost at sea and he could quite possibly be dead, she breaks down, and Rosalind comes up with the punishment for being among the villagers of her kingdom, (one of Rosalind's new rules) and Ella is banished. She meets Kaia, from a neighboring kingdom, and together, the two of them go on an adventure while Ella finds herself besides being a princess all the time, and Kaia finds out what it means to really have someone care.
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.