Imagine Fairytale Princesses meets The Avengers Penny is a princess whose beauty is far inferior to those in her bloodline. For that, she is proclaimed dead since birth and lives her days hidden away in the castle cellar. Unbeknown to most, including herself, she has a gift: she can see the darkness within one’s mind through touch. Everett is a dragon prince from a land poisoned by a mysterious darkness. He arrives in Penny’s kingdom seeking the princess foretold to end the darkness. The potential candidates? Penny’s evil eldest sister, Tatiana, and her second eldest kind sister, Sarah. Because Penny, the third princess, officially does not exist. When a mysterious fairy offers Penny the gift of beauty, Penny disguises as a royal servant and lends her powers to assist her kind sister, Sarah, and the prince to destroy the source of the darkness hidden in the minds of certain individuals in the kingdom. As their quest leads them to new alliance among the suffering people and the realm of the darkest minds plaguing the kingdom, they find themselves facing off demons from both outside and within. With the clock fast ticking, the prince must find the foretold princess and queen of his land or die by the poison of the darkness. But there are those who will do anything to keep Penny’s identity hidden. With the odds against Penny, will her identity be revealed or forever remain hidden? *A Cinderella retelling with action and adventure like no other! This is an origin story of the princess Penny, and can be read as a standalone book.