Title: Ring True
Author: L. Darby Gibbs
Date: 2020
Publisher: Inkabout / Amazon
Quote: "[T]here's a chant, and it's said that the singer will enter the woods and find a beautiful castle."
Kambry, who has done some archery and some weaving before training as a scribe, lives in a nice middle-class village in a fantasy kingdom with just enough magic to have an enchanted portal through the woods to the castle where, unsuspected by her, the prince is looking for a trustworthy companion. She just happens to find a chant and teach it to some friends, who just happen to decide to chant it with her to see if she's drawn into the woods. She is.
Prince Russal seems nice, except for having become impossibly suspicious. Kambry is told she can never go home--either she'll be banished for treason, or she'll stay. She feels like a prisoner, though the castle is pleasant enough. Will she and Russal ever be able to trust each other enough even to notice that they're attracted to each other? Is someone trying to make Kambry seem untrustworthy to Russal?
Of course they will. Of course he is. This is a romantic fantasy. Even after the quarrel and reconciliation, at least one more novel-length adventure lies between them and happily-ever-after.
If you like this kind of story you'll probably like Ring True. It's well enough written to make good bedtime or hospital, commute or down-time reading. I don't think it's meant to be as funny as it occasionally is. It's a frivolous fun read.
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