Before I have the chance to have you read this story, I will just tell you now this is not one of those Once Upon A Time and Happily Ever After stories, no. This is a story of a little girl named Brenda Jeston who has rough times with her family, her mother died of cancer so she had hard time trying to talk with her abusive father. She'd go to school afraid trying to avoid the bullies that she can. She only had one friend, Amanda Denive. Amanda always tried to protect her friend, but she was the one who would end up getting hurt in fights just for her own best friend. Brenda tells her to stop and when Amanda does stop, the bullies end up pushing Brenda around, calling her names.
When she gets home, something wrong is always happening that makes her father loose it and beat her. If Brenda says anything her father will beat her even more. When she goes to sleep she gets nightmares and wakes up off the bed in the middle of the night and doesn't sleep for the rest of the night. Even if it's only 5 more hours for her to wake up. She thinks of contemplating suicide, so she will sneak out in the middle of the night and walk to the woods across from her house. Her mother was buried there because Her father couldn't afford to bury her in the cemetery.
Brenda has a sad life, until in the woods she found new friends and family, a new home, a new look, and a new her
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.