Tales of Elaris 1 - Of Grace and Hope

She’s seeking the boy who left. He’s fighting for a way home. 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 strange new land. If she doesn’t defeat the one who cursed her, she’ll be trapped in a dream forever. Aided by a knight who shares her fate in Tír nan Óg and a giant unicorn they rescue along the way, Alora must choose whom to trust as her journey draws her ever closer to the truth. Because sometimes, finding your way home means letting go of the life you thought you wanted — and choosing hope instead. Of Grace and Hope, a retelling of Sleeping Beauty and The Wizard of Oz*, is a stand-alone book, complete with such tropes as “protective hero,” “he falls first,” and “no damsels here.”*