A Noble Purpose (Cornerstone Series #1)

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>To help her miserable sister Princess Liesel must survive the elements danger...and her grumpy guard.</em></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Princess Liesel's older sister Verena hasn't smiled in years. Desperate to improve her low spirits the king declares that the man who can make Verena laugh will earn her hand in marriage.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But his plan seems doomed to failure from the start. Each unsuccessful attempt only makes Verena more despondent and a set of mysterious masked suitors raises suspicions about a plot by an enemy prince. When Liesel discovers her sister still harbors feelings for a guard who was sent away years before she embarks on a desperate quest to find him both for the sake of Verena's future happiness and their kingdom's safety.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>As increasingly dangerous challenges hinder Liesel's journey she begins to wonder if they're more than coincidence. Will she and her travel companions even make it to Verena's former guard let alone convince him to return with them?</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>With each impediment drawing her closer to her own surly knight more than just her sister's happily-ever-after may be hanging in the balance.</span></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A Noble Purpose</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> by Laurie Lucking is a New Adult Christian fantasy Hans Who Made the Princess Laugh retelling and is Book #1 in the Cornerstone Series. Each book can be read as a standalone.</span></p>