Be Careful What You Wish For
JM Hughson
language
(Idlebury Books, Feb. 28, 2018)
Gwendolyn Fanny has an unimaginable imagination. And after two weeks of housebound boredom, her imagination has run amok. One day, as Gwen stares out a window, wishing for power, admiration, sophistication, and adventure, a story in Universal Scandals magazine grabs her attention. Gwen discovers the Queen of Idlebury in Dimension XIII is searching for her long-lost adopted daughter. Gwen’s belief that she is the real Princess of Idlebury tears her from her world of make-believe and throws her into a reality not even she could have imagined. Worse, Gwen must prove she is the princess by enduring a series of harrowing events. Her journey begins when a force catapults her through the thirteen dimensions and drops her in Personadonia where she befriends two of her other selves and a young dragon. While she endures tests of moral fortitude in the Field of Wisdom, jeopardizes her life by waking the dead, survives poisoning with rotteroot, and defies the paparazzi, the great dragon queen of Beastonia clashes with the Soul Seeker and King Morrebidd of Deadonia to save Gwen’s soul.Gwen’s journey ends at the Royal Assembly after she enters the Wall of Passages and undergoes a test that no one has ever passed. But she doesn’t know that her last wish changed her destiny forever.Is she really the Princess of Idlebury? Or did she need to be careful what she wished for?