The Librarian's Assistant - Sealed Tales: Book Two: Twelve Dancing Princesses

Some enchanted doors are prisons. Others are escapes. The dangerous ones are both. Twelve princesses. One hidden kingdom. And a dance no one is truly free to refuse.After surviving her first journey into the mysterious volume known as The Sealed Tales, librarian's assistant Eleanor Williams has promised herself she will be more careful.Then she begins dreaming of twelve girls trapped behind a locked door.When the next seal reveals The Twelve Dancing Princesses, Eleanor knows the story: every morning, twelve royal sisters awaken with their dancing slippers worn through. Their furious father offers a fortune-and one of his daughters in marriage-to whoever can discover where they disappear each night.But the fairy tale Eleanor remembers is only the smallest piece of the truth.Transported into the body of Amalia, the eldest princess, Eleanor discovers an enchanted passage beneath their bedroom that appears only when mysterious music begins to play.Beyond it waits a world of impossible beauty.Silver trees that sing beneath moonlight.Golden forests filled with whispers.Diamond branches bright enough to hold memories.A black lake beneath a sky that should not exist.And across the water, the breathtaking kingdom of Vespera, where twelve princes wait every night to dance.At first, Eleanor understands why the sisters keep returning.Then she realizes they may no longer have a choice.The youngest princess is exhausted. Memories are beginning to disappear. Darkness moves beneath the jeweled forests. And the magical kingdom itself appears to be dying.With practical, sharp-witted soldier Anton Fowler secretly following the princesses and Prince Lucien reluctantly revealing the truth behind Vespera's enchantment, Eleanor discovers that saving the sisters may condemn thousands of innocent people.And this time, there may be no ending in which everyone gets what they want.To change the story, Eleanor will have to do something much harder than rescue twelve princesses.She will have to let them choose for themselves.The Librarian's Assistant: The Sealed Tales - Book Two: The Twelve Dancing Princesses is a lush, mysterious fairy-tale reimagining filled with enchanted forests, forgotten magic, family bonds, hidden darkness, and the dangerous difference between being needed and being free.Perfect for readers who love fairy-tale retellings, magical libraries, portal fantasy, mysterious enchanted kingdoms, and stories where happily ever after is something the characters must define for themselves.