At times, everyone can feel friendless and adrift. But with a little luck, an unexpected advocate or even a tall, handsome knight, can swoop in and save the day. In these five, standalone short stories, young girls just out of school, a runaway princess, a nervous nobleman in love, a young woman on her first adventure, and a stranded girl left behind in war all find help, sometimes where they least expect it.If you love these stories, catch up with the characters here in An Ally by Surprise, Book 3 in the Years of Exile series. We're a husband and wife novel writing team and have been since about a month after our marriage in 2007. He's a teacher of education law. She's a Librarian. Being able to write together so happily once made a friend remark that we are as mythical as unicorns. J.S. Mawdsley live in Ohio, where they share their house with half a dozen dying houseplants, and their yard with a neighborhood cat named Eugene, a mother deer and her fawn, affectionately known as the Countess and Cherubino, and a couple of blue jays, Henry and Eleanor

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