Once a Princess
core novel 2008 Sartorias-deles
Record
| First published | 2008 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.60 (1,126 ratings, collected 2026-11-02) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781605041704 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
Sasha grew up in Los Angeles, the daughter of Sun, a woman who was once swept from a Renaissance fair into the magic world of Khanerenth. There Sun's prince vanished and a wicked king took the throne. Years later people from that world come looking for Sasha, and she is lured through a portal into the land where she was born. Her father is missing, she may hold the only spell that could free him, and everyone around her has a motive. She has to choose between the pirate Zathdar and the dreamy Prince Jehan, deciding who can be trusted in a place of ballrooms and battlefields.
Where it sits
- Universe: Sartorias-deles
- Series: Sasharia En Garde core; position 1 of 2 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Sherwood Smith
Notes
- First issued as an e-book by Samhain in 2008, then in paperback in 2009. Both books were combined in the omnibus Sasharia En Garde (Book View Cafe, 2015).
- From the series record (Sasharia En Garde): A California girl is pulled into the magic world her mother fled, where her prince father has vanished.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series Sasharia En Garde: position 1 of 2: next Twice a Prince (2008)
- Internal chronology, within Sartorias-deles: position 4 of 37: previous The Spy Princess (2012) · next Time of Daughters I (2019)
Sources
- Sherwood Smith: Sartorias-deles titles
- Sonderbooks review of Once a Princess
- AbeBooks listing (Samhain paperback, 2009)
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