Never marry a stranger even if he is a drop dead gorgeous immortal king. Never pretend to be a princess and most importantly never slip on an ancient wedding ring you know nothing about. Sarah Larker returns to a cave where her sister disappeared ten years earlier. She walks through a portal and is mistaken for an escaped princess on the run from a dangerous immortal king in medieval times.
Her plan is bold as well as brave become this princess, wed the king, and slip on an ancient wedding ring that will unlock the portal back home. Then find her sister and run as fast as she can out of Dodge. But taking on the identity of Princess Gloria comes along with perilous consequences; and putting on the ruby ring comes with an even higher price.
This was a good book I did not know by the description though it would have anything to do with trying to find Bigfoot which of course I don't believe in. It is interesting to think though of the possibility of them coming from another dimension through a portal since no one can find hard evidence of their existence. Sarah is in the woods trying to find evidence that Bigfoot exist in these same woods her sister Liz disappeared 10 years ago. Sarah and her research crew hear noise which lead them to a cave. An unsuspected guess shows up a reporter named Frank who likes Sarah and has made it his life mission to refute all her claims about the beast. The Sasquatches out to be Guardians of this portal that they go through where her sister disappeared.
Frank and Sarah have a love hate relationship and she is upset when he walks into her camp where she monitoring signs of any Bigfoot activity. After a sighting Frank and Sarah go into the cave together after they see the monster but something strange happens they are transported to another place and time. They are in a land called Tastian. Sarah is hiding in the woods when an Immortal King Victor Fesque II confuses her for a runaway princess named Gloria he captures and takes her to his dungeon. He thinks she crazy and lost her mind because she keeps talking about things from our world he knows nothing about and she confused about his attire and appearance. He gives her a choice either marry him or faced death. Try as hard as she may to convince him she not this Gloria girl he refuses to believe her saying she just playing stupid.
Frank some how manages to get a suit of armor entering the dungeon to come save Sarah but when he finds out the King wants to marry her he changes his mind, because they need the royal ring he will give her to reopen the portal to go back home. Little do they know the powers and repercussions of her putting the ring on her finger. Frank leaves her to marry the king.
Before the ceremony Victor tries to tell Sarah about the consequences of the ring that it binds them together and they will be able to commute with her telepathically and they can feel each other's pain. Also as an immortal comes so pretty cool powers such as the use of fireballs. The priest married them and Sarah wants to get away as fast a possible but Victor wants to do other things they share several searing kisses. Eventually after the reception Sarah gets taken to a room to change her dress and the servant girl Mia.
Frank sent her to help Sarah escape the plan is to switch close and pretend that the queen got attacked so Sarah can leave the room and exit this castle the plan goes well and she meets up with another person Jules who is the lover of Mia he takes her to where Frank is. Frank tells her his story and that he promised to help get some minerals in exchange for the villagers help and tell her that they know her sister. Later she finds out that Liz fell in love with Charles princess Gloria's brother but were killed a year ago because they got married and he turned her immortal without permission. So Sarah now is in the same predicament.
As they try to escape king victor and his men are chasing them the enter some woods that a forbidden and run into wolf shape-shifters who plan to kill them but once they see Sarah's ring they give them free passage. They arrive at a small village trying to find any information about Liz but King William's the father of the real princess Gloria knights find out Sarah is there an try to kill her she gets shot in the heart with an arrow.
They flee the pub and enter a church and Sarah wounds heal since she is an immortal now. There is tension among the group. The priest gives Sarah a locket that belonged to her sister saying he helped her a few years ago but did not know where she went.
Jules comes back with some disturbing news of a town where they plan to kill Adam, Beth, and Steven people part of Sarah's Bigfoot hunting crew. They leave the church to try to save them. At first the villagers will not relent because the three stole some bread but a man comes up bringing his wife who had falling in the river they do CPR to revive the girl and they are so happy that they release the group.
They all exchange stories of how they are arrived here and Steven said he gotten everything on tape. They head toward Ripteenia where Liz was last known to be at. Sarah is now being hunted by three groups of Immortals her newly wed Husband Victor, King William and the Cardashian Court the head of all the immortals. The latter two want to kill her but Victor seems to want to help her even when he finally finds out she not princess Gloria he never met a woman like her and he plans to keep her.
They get up to a waterfall and are being chased they jump from the cliff to avoid capture. Victor has been trying to communicate to Sarah telepathically and convince her to come to him and he will protect her. When she wakes from his spell on her she tries deter him by throwing a fireball at him and passes out cause it hurt him which hurt her as well. Once they got away the group as a whole just wanted to leave and go back through the portal.
Sarah had a different plan she wanted to go find the real princess Gloria because she needed information on how to get the ring off her finger and it would not matter if they went to the portal the immortals after her could just follow them through it. So they headed toward King William's castle in Dornia.
This book was different a unique type with several elements of being classified as a fairytale. The setting goes to a far way place and time. Evil royalty is involved and of course magic and they have a few problems to solve. I look forward to reading the next book in the series entitled Eternal Destiny.
