Mouse Princess: A Firefly Girl Sequel

by Nathan Jones

In the Royal Palace in Sephron City, capitol of the Kingdom of Sephronia, there lives a Princess named Alissa. A very brave and sometimes willful girl who once raised magical fireflies in a little village in an aspen wood.She still raises fireflies, of course, but now they have a grand glass house in the palace gardens, and are very seldom called on to fill a lantern. Mostly they volunteer to keep Alissa company.And their reassurance is welcome, for Alissa has much more weighing on her shoulders as a Princess than she ever did as a firefly girl. Most of all, the Curse that has fallen over Sephronia has grown more and more terrible since her last adventure. It has even reached the heart of the palace itself, causing her grandfather the King to fall into a deep sleep from which he cannot awaken.Alissa's father the Prince has gone off to lift the Curse, leaving her behind even though she begged him to let her go with him and help in his Quest. He insisted it would not be safe, but is anywhere in Sephronia safe as long as the Curse hangs over the kingdom?Especially since it seems the Curse has finally caught Alissa herself, throwing her into another adventure. Not just to save herself and her family, but all of Sephronia.

244 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 9, 2021

About the author

My name is Nathan Jones. I write mainly in the post-apocalyptic and science fiction genres. My most recently completed project is The Challenge, first book of the post-apocalyptic No More Content series, a collaboration with my brother Seth Jones. My next project is Mythas, first book of the fantasy adventure series Band of Outcasts.

I've been a longtime reader of post-apocalyptic fiction, and like to explore various scenarios in which disasters could occur. One interest has been observing just how fragile our modern life is, and how little it would take to send us back to a low tech existence that people in general no longer possess the knowledge or skills to survive in. That interest inspired me to write and publish my completed post-apocalyptic series Best Laid Plans, comprising the five books Fuel, Shortage, Invasion, Reclamation, and Determination, and to build on that story with the completed Nuclear Winter series, which begins shortly after Best Laid Plans ends and includes the four books First Winter, First Spring, Chain Breakers, and Going Home, as well as the standalone novel Fallen City.

Outside the Best Laid Plans world I've written the completed post-apocalyptic Mountain Man series, with the novels Badlands, Homecoming, Homeland, Mountain War, Final Stand, and Lone Valley. I also have the completed post-apocalyptic Isolation series with Shut In, Going Out, Starting Anew, and Holding On. My current post-apocalyptic series is No More Content, with the recently released first book The Challenge.

I've also been a longtime reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy, with an equally deep love of those two genres. This has inspired multiple projects, the most recently completed being my science fiction novel Caretakers, Book Two of the Stag Privateers series, sequel to Last Stand. My other science fiction story is Boralene, Book One of the Stellar Merger series.

The stories I've written in the Young Adult Fantasy genre have now been moved over from another pen name to be available alongside my other books. These books include the completed The Watchers trilogy with Undying Heights, Ithel's Library, and Deep Dwelling, the completed The Protectorate series with Corsairs, Revenants, Invaders, and Shipwrights, and the standalone children's fairy tale Firefly Girl.