Smith, Sherwood

While Wren and Prince Connor set off to uncover her parentage, a sinister wizard creates havoc back home in Cantimoor and threatens to kidnap Wren's best friend, Princess Teressa.

Aurelia Kim Murray, a grad student with a passion for fencing and ballet, goes to Europe to investigate her heritage and returns to California as a member of a royal ruling family in Dobrenica, a tiny country in Eastern Europe.

After nursing a broken heart in California, Kim Murray takes sword in hand and returns to the magical country of Dobrenica and encounters ghosts, magic, murder and mystery as she tries to understand all the different faces of love.

Kim grew up in California but knew nothing about her extended family. She knew her grandmother came from Europe but wasn't sure where. A trip to uncover her past changed her life and Kim found out she was a member of one of the royal families of Dobrenica, an obscure European country with some very unusual attributes.

"Jane Yolen books." With the help of a prince and an apprentice, Wren strives to rescue her best friend, a princess named Tess, from the fortress of a wicked king.

Kim Murray, a California girl unsatisfied with her modern life, studies ballet and fencing and dreams of older times, and when she travels to Europe to learn more about her family's roots, she quickly finds herself caught up in an adventure and learning surprising details about her bloodline.

To fulfill their father's dying wish, teenage Countess Meliara and her brother Branaric organize a revolution against a greedy king.

With the help of a prince and an apprentice wizard, Wren strives to rescue her best friend, a princess named Tess, from the fortress of a wicked king.

When wicked King Andreus declares war on the royal families of Meldrith, Wren and her friends, Princess Teressa, Prince Connor, and chief magic maker Tyron, determine to defeat him.

Princess Rhia joins other princesses and princes at a party for the Crown Prince of Vesarja. When Princess Iardith is abducted, Princess Rhis and her friends go after her with the princes in pursuit.