Book excerpt: The Princess, Cheon Cheon-Sa-Jiah, Angel of Moonlight has fled her arranged marriage to the Celestial Emperor of China, no less, with her abductor from a rival kingdom. After traveling together, they begin helping people along the way, upsetting the statues quo, and form a deep respect for each other, and form a new mission. The both flee the Chinese authorities and leave for a new world, a land whose rivers flow with gold. Trained as a shaman from an early age, after being selected for an arranged marriage at a young age, Cheon-Sa_Jiah has grown up protected in a monastery most of her life, waiting for the day her marriage becomes formalized. Her natural gifts of communication has connected her with nature and its spirits and creatures in ways that have opened up a whole different experience in the way Jiah interacts with the world and people around her. In her travels, Cheon-Sa-Jiah meets a variety of people of different cultures, living and dead, as she not only travels across the world and back, she also journeys through hell and back. Her heart cannot resist helping those she meets, and wherever she goes, she helps others in their journey through life's many pathways. Jiah, being a young acolyte, tends to make many mistakes in her headstrong and headlong rush to empower others and often acts without regard to herself, often losing her best laid intentions to the problems she causes or finds, leading to more distractions and frustrations, mostly for those around her. In the mid 1820's, the world is in a state where many explorers and nations are reaching around the globe for new opportunities for expansion. The Outlaw Princess has it set in her head, that the best way to lead an empire is to strengthen its people. That ideal forms the basis for all she does wherever she goes, Cheon-Sa_Jiah is out there meeting the challenges other may face, whether spiritual or in living, she may or may not be ready for the challenges ahead, but why let that stop her in her own headlong flight. We are all connected, whether worlds away, or at home with family, allow love for others to flow through our connections and strengthen the whole. Life is a turning point upon which our own spirits will meet together along the wheel. Who will we meet when we find ourselves there.