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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  “I would like a child...
  
  
  _Will you agree to father it?”_
  
  
  Part of _Princesses of the Alhambra_. Princess Alba longs for a life away from
  her tyrannical sultan father. She craves a happy family of her own, away from
  the palace walls she’s been imprisoned in all her life. So when honorable Lord
  Inigo comes to her rescue, she’s spellbound! The Spanish knight is betrothed
  to another, but could he be her only hope of realizing her dream?
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Princesses of the Alhambra
  
  
  Captive in the castle; rescued by love!
  
  
  Three sisters, Princesses Leonor, Alba and Constanza, fiercely loyal to each
  other, lead gilded but captive lives in a tower in the beautiful Alhambra
  Palace. Their father, the sultan, watches over them closely.
  
  
  When they catch sight of three handsome Spanish knights being held for ransom,
  the sisters dream of romance—and escape! Discover how they each find the
  happiness they yearn for in the arms of the