Pretty Witty: The Ruffian Princess
Karen Willis
eBook
(GINAM, March 12, 2017)
In what is called the hundred days’ war, King Erro, ruler of Explendia invades King Olli and Queen Anni’s kingdom. With only Princess Amara as heir to their throne, Queen Anni uses her quick thinking and gives her daughter to her old nurse for safe keeping till the war is over. For one hundred days, King Olli and Queen Anni try to push the terrible King Erro out of their provinces, but he is too powerful for them. When King Olli sees that he isn’t winning the war, he decides to make peace with the greedy King Erro. The two kings decide that when their children are old enough, they will one day marry. But King Erro sees this as an opportunity to get more out of King Olli and make him promise that he will send all his outlaws to The Valley of Dead Bones to look for his missing treasure. King Olli agrees. With King Erro gone from their land, the king and queen rush to get Princess Amara, but she and the old nurse is nowhere to be found. Meet Pretty Witty, a young girl lost and alone. She doesn’t know much about herself. She is sold by some gypsies to a couple, the Carpentimes who make her believe that they are her parents. The Carpentimes who have four girls, take Pretty Witty to be their cinderella, but as the girl grows, they quickly realize that Pretty Witty is no cinderella. She prefers to be carefree and happy instead. In fact, she gives the Carpentimes much more trouble than they bargained for. She is not the neatest housekeeper, and she always breaks things. The Carpentimes really want to get rid of the child but fear being sent to the Valley of Dead Bones—buying children is against the law in King Alli and Queen Anni’s kingdom. So when Pretty Witty scales the walls of the Great Palace of Boogawagga, the Carpentimes sees this as a way to get rid of her. Pretty Witty is caught at the Great Palace of Boogawagga by Judge Rasmus Casmus Serious. He likes to send people to the Valley of Dead Bones. But he sees Pretty Witty as different. After all, he doesn’t hate all people. It is while the judge is thinking about what to do with Pretty Witty that she meets her new friend, Eddy Fraidy whose entire family has been banished by the judge for selling rotten fish. But fortune will turn to Pretty Witty. Judge Rasmus Casmus Serious is really a lonely man. He looks at Pretty Witty and remembers his son. Instead of sending Pretty Witty to the awful King Erro, he takes her home to be reared by his housekeeper and himself. But according to the books which he always lives by, no one can be adopted without the king and queen’s permission. The judge, his housekeeper, and Eddy Fraidy then come up with the perfect plan for Pretty Witty to be the judge’s child—they will put her in a disguise to go before the king and queen. But when Queen Anni sees the girl in her disguise, she is drawn to the girl. The queen has second thoughts but could find no real reason not to give Pretty Witty to the judge. Sometime after, Pretty Witty and her Friend, Eddy Fraidy will find themselves in Explendia where they attempt to free all of King Erro’s prisoners—including Eddy Fraidy’s family. But things don’t go quite as plan. In her ugly costume as a gypsy, Pretty Witty falls in love with King Erro’s son and he with her. This causes some dilemma because back in King Olli and Queen Anni’s kingdom, Princess Amara has been found and Prince Alric is destined to marry her.