"When a royal messenger announces that Queen Edwina is coming to tea, Shelly is as jittery as a jellyfish. After all, the Queen of the d Western Oceans is her great aunt. And despite being a princess, Shelly has never met a queen before. How should she act? What should she wear? Then Pearl tells Shelly that the queen is going to take Shelly to live in Neptune's Castle: it's where a real princess would live, Pearl tells her. Shelly is terrified of leaving her home, friends, and beloved grandfather behind"--Amazon.com.

Debbie Dadey is an award-winning children’s book author who has written more than 150 books. She is best known for her series The Adventures of the Bailey School Kids, written with Marcia Thornton Jones. Debbie lives with her husband, her children, and three dogs in Sevierville, Tennessee.