An Excerpt from… Burn (Focus Series Book 3)
Prologue
Once upon a time, there was a girl who was in love. She was in love with a prince. She was so in love that everyday, she would wait where he walked so that one day, he would finally notice her. He finally did. They walked together in the kingdom and everyone wished they were the girl, or what everyone soon called the lucky girl. Everyone thought she would become a princess.
Then one day, the prince seemed different. He would be late to their walks around their kingdom. He seemed distracted, and the lucky girl became worried. When she would ask the prince what the problem was, he would say that he was fine. Still, the lucky girl knew something was wrong.
It wasn’t until it was too late that the lucky girl found out what had happened to the prince. When she finished her performance with the other noble women of the land, she noticed that no one was paying attention to her at all. Instead, all the people were looking at someone else—another girl who stood beside the prince. The prince had decided to make someone else his princess.
At first, the one lucky girl, now just the girl, wondered why it was not her he had chosen. Why would he embarrass her in this way? Then, she heard the rumors of the land. The girl was not considered beautiful enough. She did not have the loose curls, the fair skin, and the blue eyes that the new princess had. She was deep bronze with hair that would stand up to greet the sun, and while she was beautiful, she, apparently, was not beautiful enough. And what made it worse was that it seemed that most people in the land agreed.