The Rose Princess

She was born the only biological child of her father, the King of Rose Mountain. Rosella grew up under the overprotective nature and high expectations of her mother, the queen, knowing that she would one day be queen. While her parents and older half-brothers were born without magical abilities, Rosella showed powerful magical skills from an early age and learned how to use and control them from both of her grandmothers, Lady Margaret and Queen Lea. At eighteen, she inherited the Staff of Light from Lady Margaret and the Amulet of Rose Mountain from Queen Lea at twenty-one, the two most powerful magical artifacts in all the realm.
Unfortunately, when an evil warlock named Mugwort Octavius Nidhoggr petrified her parents and the royal court. The twenty-two-year-old princess was forced to flee with her friends and remaining family and live in exile, traveling from kingdom to kingdom in search of military aid without success. Three years later, when Rosella arrived in the realm of Magnolia, she met Prince Julian. Through him and his friend and royal page, Elias, who is secretly in love with the palace maid, Eliza, Rosella, learns about the tyrannical rule of Julian’s older brother, Prince Robert, with their widowed mother, Queen Catrina.
As Rosella and Julian got to know each other, they fell in love while keeping their royal statuses hidden. When they learned about each other’s royal status, Rosella and Julian worked together to end Robert’s reign of terror and save the kingdom. Will Rosella make sure Julian takes the throne that is rightfully his? Will she finally get the army she needs to reclaim her kingdom? Will she be able to help Elias and Eliza gain their happily ever after?
In the first installment of The Rose Chronicles trilogy, Carly Lakes shows that despite her thorns, Rosella is a true Rose Princess.

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