I was browsing through the YA section in the library, and I picked up this book. It was as if the book was begging me to pick it up and read it. :) This is a perfect example of a book that would catch my eye. A wonderful mix of fantasy, mystery, and romance. Perfect. The book starts out with a princess named Nalia who is talking to her best friend, Kiernan. She is called by her parents (the king and queen) to talk with them. Sixteen-year-old Nalia is pretty surprised because her mother and father rarely call on her.
Once she comes to them, they reveal to her a terrible secret that has been kept confidential for a long, long time;she is not the princess. In fact, she was just a common girl. The reason why she was standing for the princess was because the princess had a prophecy revealed to her when she was born.
The prophecy foresaw that the real princess was to die at age sixteen. To prevent this from happening, the king and queen decided to get a girl just like her, and after sixteen years return the rightful princess to the castle. This, of course, was all quite upsetting to Nalia, whose real name was Sidna. She would lose the life she knew, the best friend she knew, her "parents" she loved; she would lose everything. And she did, instead moving to a small quiet town to live with her aunt. Sidna's real father was a weaver, and he had died some few years ago. Sidna's mother had left her father a while ago as well, so of course Sidna was left with her strict, skeptical aunt. She did not do very well in that small town, and especially when a certain friend of her's deceived her into thinking he loved her. Sidna was sick and tired of everything. The last straw came when Kiernan came to visit her. She was so ashamed to have him see her in work clothes. Sidna lost her temper with him, and let him fly off back to the city.
The following day, Sidna told her aunt that she was leaving to the city. And she did. In the city, she was recruited to be an understudy to a woman to practiced magic, Aunt Varil. Aunt Varil tells Sidna she has special magic powers, probably passed down from her father. While at the city, Sidna discovers something that could change the course of the royal family's history forever. The true princess that had come to take Sidna's spot, Princess Nalia, was not the princes at all! To find out what happens next in this compelling mystery, I highly suggest you read the book. I promise you, you won't be disappointed.
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