A Gracious Hope

Can one find hope when everything familiar has been stripped away?

On the eve of her nineteenth birthday, Alora learns she's not a peasant girl, the people who raised her aren't even related to her, and she can't marry the boy from the village who promised to return for her. She's a princess, betrothed to a neighboring royal - and cursed since birth.

But Alora adores her simple life and flees from her newfound expectations. When the curse is enacted anyway, she must fight her way through a st...