A Gracious Hope

<p><em>Can one find hope when everything familiar has been stripped away?</em></p><p> </p><p>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.</p><p> </p><p>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.</p><p> </p><p>A Gracious Hope<em> a retelling of </em>Sleeping Beauty<em> and </em>The Wizard of Oz<em> is a stand-alone novella complete with such tropes as protective hero he falls first and no damsels here. It is part of the Hope Ever After series a collection of twenty hopeful and uplifting fairy-tale retellings. Each book is written by a different author so it can be enjoyed in any order. The proceeds from this series are donated to the O.U.R. (Operation Underground Rescue) to rescue children from exploitation and trafficking.</em></p><p><br><em>*Proceeds from </em>A Gracious Hop<em>e will be donated to O.U.R. through 2025.*</em></p>