Trials and Command

<p><strong>Protecting a prince's sister-in-law seems simple until a queen tries to match him up with her daughter.</strong><br><br>Keenan left home to watch out for a young woman searching for her friend. But when bandits attack leaving them separated Keenan is left lost and wounded stumbling through the woods in search of help.<br><br>Princess Sakura needs a titled husband to inherit the throne. Since a prophecy declared her the future bride of a common soldier she only has a few months until her brother is named heir in her place. But it's hard to find a husband at all in an isolated castle.<br><br>When an injured young man staggers up to their door the queen offers him the chance to prove he is a true prince and so marry her daughter. Sakura believes their guest has enchanted the queen...until her mother confides a plot that will guarantee Sakura the throne. All she has to do is make Keenan fall in love with her.<br><br>But he doesn't trust her or her mother - and the key to her crown might be too powerful to give up.<br><br><em>Trials and Command</em> is a clean no-spice retelling of <em>The Tinderbox</em> and <em>The Princess and the Pea</em>. It is book five in The Roumaterra Chronicles a series of interconnected standalone fairy tale retellings perfect for readers of Brittany Fichter and Annette K. Larsen.</p><p>Length: 528 pages</p>