With the enemy closing in to kidnap her, Princess Foliana glares at Brodia, the wizard’s apprentice assigned to her protection. So far, she’s done a lousy job and now the troops have trapped them in a pine forest as a blizzard freezes them. Farm girls are really the most worthless creatures the Gods ever created!

As Foliana traipses through the trees, this peasant wants her to wear the dead coach driver’s clothes. But she is a princess and has appearances to maintain. 

Then the troops catch up to them and the princess must learn some hard truths about her world.

"The New Defender"

by Kevin P Hallett