Today I am participating for the first time in Snippet Sunday.
Here are just a few lines from Questionable Queen, the sequel to Pigsty Princess</a>.
Royal Princess Ursula, the sister of Queen Mariana, heroine of Pigsty, has gone to see her mother after agreeing to marry the King of Heyton, a country Valborough has been at war with on and off for decades.
“Then I married your father and learned what a treacherous people the Heytonians are,” Ursula’s mother said “You mustn’t trust any of them, my dear.”
“Mother, I am to marry their King. Surely, I will have to trust him.”
“Oh, no. Especially not him. Kings are notoriously untrustworthy. See what your father, the great King of Valborough, did to me. He threw my heart away and brought home an Element forsaken child of another woman to take the throne away from my son. My son.”
Ursula swallowed. This was not what she needed to hear, and she had to get her mother off this subject before it set off a bout of rage she couldn’t contain.
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Pigsty Princess! What a cute and creative title! Welcome to Snippet Sunday. 🙂
Really nice family story! Wow, parents hating each other are such a pain for the children. And the advice to trust nobody is also a pretty harsh one.
Love the title of the book. Snippet was very interesting. I definitely can’t wait to find out more.
Welcome to Sunday Snippets! I’m intrigued by this and hope you’ll post more from it.
Women always get the short straw. I hope the princess will find true love.
Oh wow, just about to marry, this is time a gal should be able to count on encouragement, yikes.
Welcome to Snippet Sunday, Nancy. Interesting first snippet. “don’t trust him’ is the last thing any woman would like to hear about their future husband.
Hi! Nice snippet– the tone & your word choices reflect the genre well. An intriguing start…
What an interesting snippet! Want to read more of this story.