Marie Aranas: 2 books

A young woman is frustrated with life in the city of America and travels to Latin America in search of herself and answers to life. She enters a writing workshop from a university town and falls in love with a man who shows her how to live life again despite the disappointments in her life by learning to let go .

She is the marked one. The twin princess who is ghastly to behold and was sent to the far province to live there and exist without haunting the dreams of the Queen mother. But she learns the dark arts and comes back with a cause for revenge and power.