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The False Princess
Eilis O'Neal
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Suppose you found out that you are not who you’ve always thought you were. What would you do?

For all her sixteen years, Nalia has always safely assumed that she was, indeed, Nalia, Princess of Thorvaldor.

She was wrong.

After her sixteenth birthday, the king and queen
reveal that Nalia is actually a peasant girl named Sinda who the king took at birth to be the stand-in for the real princess Nalia. There was a curse laid on the royal family: the princess would be killed on her sixteenth birthday.

The date passed without a hitch. Now the real Nalia is brought back from the secret convent she had been in for sixteen years, and Sinda is cast out of the palace to make her own way. Feeling a very righteous anger, Sinda discovers