Sweet Revenge — Jacqueline Varlotta

Sweet Revenge is a story of an abandoned,lost, young girl named Mika, sent away from everything she knew at the tender age of four years, to live in a strange, foreign country after the death of her mother Mayesha. Turned away by her father - the king of Mareedikhan, Mika is sent to live with her grandmother Fraline in Saudi Arabia in the palace of Amir, where she is a servant to the royal family like her grandmother. As time goes by, Mika discovers a hidden world only read or heard about in fairy tales. A world of witchcraft that will change her life forever. For she is a witch from generations back with powers and abilities she has not completely comprehended yet, but which will cause a chain of events to unfold in her life. A life of abandonment now seems to have become one filled with endless possibilities - despite her life as servant to a royal family who will not tolerate willfulness or disrespect. Mika feels she has come home at last, but home to a life that defies who she truly is as a princess, a life she could never have foreseen. Within the palace walls she must deal with persons on a daily basis who treat her with disdain for her lower social status. A royal family that will do anything to keep her in her place as their lowly servant. Among these people in the royal family, she encounters Prince Bendar, Princess Hezekiah and Prince Amir's only son. The young prince is determined to make the defiant young servant girl accept her position as servant within the place and he constantly taunts and teases her with his behavior toward her. But Mika is determined not to bow down to the royal family, including the aggravating prince and she defies him at every turn only adding to his persistent taunting. Along with her defiance, comes her ability to get back at a royal prince who never sees it coming.......A young witch who gets her own sweet revenge on him in ways he never knew existed. As time goes by, Mika is given the chance to become something more than what she has always been for years. A chance to be more than servant by a woman who hates her. A revenge will become bitter sweet and take Mika to places she never dreamed she would ever be, and bring her back full circle to a past that has haunted her since she was four years old........ Prince Bendar, royal, spoiled, wealthy son of Princess Hezekiah and Prince Amir, is determined to make the young girl Mika, see her place as a servant within the palace walls. Teasing and taunting her at every opportunity, he sees her defiance as a challenge and becomes determined to make her accept her lowly position in the palace. He does not count on Mika's stubborness and her willfulness, it only goads him more and a battle of wills begins. However her 'hidden' abilities he has heard rumor of from the staff in the palace seem to be more than just rumors and he gets more than he bargained for, along with something he never saw coming........ Several years later, when Mika is nowhere to be found within the palace, Prince Bendar confronts the woman he calls mother and another battle begins. A battle that will finally get him the one thing he has always wanted and the one thing he could never forget....... Sweet Revenge is a story that will take readers on a journey with Mika, the king of Mareedikhan's daughter, as she travels on a path filled with witchcraft and possibilities only found in a fairy tale. A young girl who dreams of a better life than servant and who becomes something more as the years go by. Along the way, she encounters people who will change her life in ways she never could have imagined and turns a young prince into a man who will never question her as witch again....... Sweet Revenge is a story filled with many different twists and turns. A story with fairy tale like themes - with loss and love, mixed in with paranormal and witchcraft throughout. Can this story be called contemporary or Paranormal? Maybe it is a bit of both.....