Rana: Teenage Queen
Some
Interesting Facts about the Planet Hope
(That’s
the planet this story takes place)
The Planet Hope is
smaller than Earth, but nearly twice as old.
They have some birds, squirrels, and chipmunks, but nothing dangerous
until the humans arrived two hundred years ago. Now the human farms have huge
bulls, horses, cows, pigs, goats, lambs, and chickens. Except for the lambs
which are gentle and soft to touch, the fairies tend to stay far away from these
new creatures.
The fairies have control
over time, so asking how long they have lived here will only baffle you, since
they can, if they wish, pop back to the beginning of time and marvel at the
planet’s creation, then return to the present for a cup of tea.
Fairies are mostly
responsible, kind, and thoughtful humanoids. However, once in a while, one will
go bad, and the good fairies will cast the creature out. It’s possible that has
caused resentment by those casts out, making them doubly mean and vengeful. For
whatever reason, there are some really mean fairies and humans causing trouble
on Hope now.
The bad fairies might even
be casting spells on the good fairies because the good fairies rarely have
children anymore. A fairy can live hundreds of years, but, on average, they are
only having one child. Realizing this could end their race when the ship of
humans arrived two hundred years ago with their strange four-legged creatures,
the fairies did not send them away. Instead, they sent out their tallest females,
with their wings safely tucked away, to see if they could mate with giant
humanoids, and it turned out they could and better yet, healthy children,
somewhat taller came from the mating and they tended to retain their fairy
powers. Thus, taller female fairies, who could pass for a short human were
strategically placed in the various holds that the humans built.
Rana’s mother was sent to
seduce the King of Stronghold, and she quickly did. However, when Rana was
born, the king was so horrified at his daughter’s tiny size, he decided he
would get his sons from a larger woman. While
he loved her mother and Rana, he refused to give her more children, leaving
Rana an only child.
We never know if the King
had other children. One claimed he was the son of the King, but the King never acknowledged
him, so when the King and Queen died on one horrible day, 16-year-old Rana
became the queen of two Kingdoms.
BLURB
Rana is only sixteen
when she becomes queen. Her first challenge is to quell an internal coup while
a massive army storms the gates of her castle. Her enemies believe her to be a
child, but she has powers they’ve never suspected. She also has great dreams
for her people, and she will do whatever is necessary to make them happen, even
marrying a prince she does not want.
EXCERPT
Rana still remembered
the shock that filled her when her mother confessed she wasn’t human, that Rana
was only half-human, but to her eye, not even that. Her mother’s words
horrified her at first, but then she realized she wasn’t a sorry excuse of a
human, but a different entity. That made her special!
Her mother’s race had
been on this planet since the beginning of time, or so their legends claim…Rana
had rolled her eyes when her mother first said it.
However, the more she
learned about their ability to manipulate time, the more probable and also less
meaningful that statement became. It turned out she could go back to the
‘beginning of time’ herself, so the fact that some of her people wish to hang
out and watch life evolve into its earliest forms didn’t really surprise her. In
fact, it sounded like a nice way to spend a week or two.
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RANA:
TEENAGE QUEEN
About the Author
Liza O’Connor lives in Denville, NJ
with her dog Jess. They hike in fabulous woods every day, rain or shine, sleet
or snow. Having an adventurous nature, she learned to fly small Cessnas in NJ,
hang-glide in New Zealand, kayak in Pennsylvania, ski in New York, scuba dive
with great white sharks in Australia, dig up dinosaur bones in Montana, sky
dive in Indiana, and raft a class four river in Tasmania. She’s an avid
gardener, amateur photographer, and dabbler in watercolors and graphic arts.
Yet through her entire life, her first love has and always will be writing
novels.
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