Andrea loves California and wants to stay forever. But when by mistake she returns to her kingdom and brings a Californian boy with her, war breaks out. Andrea leaves the castle once more in search of the enemy king, don Julian. While she tries to convince him to negotiate, don Julian is shot trying to protect her. Bound by her conscience to save his life, Andrea defies her father and swallowing her pride, asks her mother for help.
In a desperate effort to end the war, Andrea puts her life at risk by taking don Julian back to his kingdom. Although her plan succeeds, and her courage gains her parents’ respect, Andrea, haunted by the cruelties of the battle she has witnessed and her grief for don Julian’s death, questions her wish to be a warrior and finally accepts her role as a lady. The arrival of don Julian at the castle will shatter her apathy and reawaken her dreams. But this time Andrea knows that leaving will not solve her problems, and refuses to run away. Instead she will confront her mother and openly fight for the right to be herself.
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The following is the synopsis used by Atk. Butterfly in getting this book accepted by a publisher. Unfortunately, the publisher went out of business a year later so the book is no longer available to the public.
Synopsis of The Aliens Is Coming!
The Aliens Is Coming!, 40,000 words, by Atk. Butterfly, is a science fiction tale revolving around Derek and Amanda, two people in floundering marriages. During a clandestine meeting, they find a book picturing them nude on the cover. They take the book after discovering that the characters inside more than just resemble them and learning more about each other than they already knew. They later fall asleep in a hot tub and awaken to find that they're in space, kidnapped by aliens from another world just as was depicted in the book. Alarmed, they bond closer to each other and carefully read the book while wondering whether it's prophetic or magic.
Knowing the alien kidnappers mean them harm, they fight back until they take over the ship. All the while, their thoughts are open to whichever of them possesses the book. Aware of their lust for each other, they take their affair all the way, giving each other more satisfaction than their spouses ever would. However, they are alarmed that the book ending changes when they give in before the book first indicated that they would .
Upon freeing two other pairs of aliens held captive, one pair discloses that the book is from the future and was written by Derek and Amanda. They discover their book is a top selling romance novel in the universe. The aliens consider Derek and Amanda celebrated authors whose book was the first to use molecular-sized computers embedded inside every page. Derek and Amanda learn that the book kept changing because it was sent into the past. It can only depict what actually happens as it was written using their brain scans, eventually assuring them that they do survive.
After landing on another world, they first encounter the police and then a court with humorous results. After clearing up the charge, they get brain scans and seek out an agent to market their book. In a dramatic and violent encounter with the publisher of their book, they finally reach an agreement for publishing it and create the mystery of how the book came to be in their possession in the first place.
Copyright 1997, Atk. Butterfly
Beasts Are Us, ISBN 0-7599-0216-7
ISBN 0-7599-0229-1 (paperback)
Witness Protection, ISBN 1-58200-140-5 (HTML edition)
ISBN 1-58200-253-3 (RocketBook (tm) edition)
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