title: Nine Princesses: Tales of Love and Romance
author:  Sheela Word 
description: As a writer with a background in psychology, I've found that enneagram personality typedescriptions are a great jumping-off point for developing fictional characters and situations. About three years ago, I drafted a story called "The Melancholy Princess," with the intent of creating a modern fairy tale for children, and found that I had actually created a realistic romance story for adults, with an Enneagram Type Four heroine. I went on to develop eight more tales, based on the other eight types. These tales, also, subtly reflect fairy-tale themes and motifs.<br><br>I'd like to emphasize, however, thateach of myprotagonistsis intended to be a real person, not a fairy-tale archetype; neither does she have all the attributes of her particular enneagram classification. In some stories, it may be easy to tell which type the princess represents; in others, it may not be so obvious. Itried to let myheroines breathe.<br><br>Given that these are romances, it shouldn't be revealing too much to say that all of these women end up with somebody. Just to make the book more interesting, not only weremy heroines developed to represent the nine enneagramtypes, but their partners were as well.
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  Adela Cathcart, Volume One.
  
  
    
    
  [CHAPTER I. CHRISTMAS EVE.  
    
  ](Adela%20Cathcart%2c%20Volume%20One__split_001.html#filepos5766)[CHAPTER II.
  CHURCH.  
    
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  III. THE CHRISTMAS DINNER.  
    
  ](Adela%20Cathcart%2c%20Volume%20One__split_001.html#filepos61523)[CHAPTER IV.
  THE NEW DOCTOR.  
    
  ](Adela%20Cathcart%2c%20Volume%20One__split_001.html#filepos92887)[CHAPTER V.
  THE LIGHT PRINCESS.
  
  
    
    
  ["THE LIGHT PRINCESS.
  
  
    
    
  ["CHAPTER I.-WHAT! NO CHILDREN ?  
    
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  II.-WON'T I, JUST ?  
    
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  III.-She can't be ours.  
    
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  IV.-Where is she ?  
    
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  V.-What is to be done ?  
    
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