Here's the blurb for my book for anyone interested
It's called 'The Liar, the Thief and the Gallows.'
Act One: Ayella is a princess. Or so she’s been told.
On her seventeenth birthday she receives two presents. The first is the truth: the brother she thought was dead is alive. The second is a lie: a secret betrothal to the Frankish Prince Javey, designed to end in his murder at her hand.
Ayella must become more than the downtrodden daughter who meekly obliges. Bretton is losing the war with Frankland and if the crown falls into her cousin Julien’s hands, the nation will become part of the Frankish empire. To save Bretton, Javey and herself, she decides to find her missing brother before the wedding. Unfortunately for her, the king would prefer he stayed missing.
Act Two: Robin is a thief. Or so he’s been told.
Suffering amnesia, he is rescued by Twist: a director running a thieves den from his theatre. He’ll protect Robin, providing he carries out an audacious plan to steal the coronation crown. The problem: one touch of gold is enough to kill a commoner.
To escape is to abandon the only clues to his identity. If he stays he risks his life. Treading the line between the man he was and the man he wants to be, Robin must decide how far he’s willing to go to survive.
As Ayella and Robin race towards the crown, both must confront their pasts in order to discover who they truly are.