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Before she was Queen, she was a nobody trying to escape.Bitter bird in a court of snakes,Sick of eating tarts and cakes...In a court of gilded mirrors, gilded smiles, and gilded lies, I am an insignificant nothing. I mimic the emptiness of the velvet-swathed nobles dancing with me beneath teardrop chandeliers, but I want more.When my father condemns me to a foul betrothal in another city, I crave at least one taste of freedom, a single adventure to savor before I am boxed up into nothingness.For one night, I escape to the carnival.Seeking to unravel some secret - to unveil the mechanisms behind the enchantment - I sneak behind one of the rides, only to find…An open door.Inside a small room, on time-eroded planks, kneels a beautiful boy scarcely older than I, cranking a cylinder to keep the ride's gears spinning.I fall into a little bit of agony, a little bit of wish. And as the wind brushes sand across my toes in my slippers, the boy glances up.I swear my breath stops.But my life?This is where my life begins.Look inside to discover how a nobody became a queen... Born in Texas but somehow having escaped without the accent, Sonya Lano currently lives in Prague, Czech Republic with two cats and a bunch of dust balls, hairballs, fur balls, spiders, story manuscripts, dreams, chocolate, books, and whatever else is hanging around her flat. Her full-time day job testing software pays the bills while her nights are (mostly) filled with living in other worlds.