Are You Unwanted?

It's Happy Valentine's Day for the lucky wanted ones , but how about the unwanted ones? I'd actually never thought about how they might feel on February 14--did you? It's a depressing thought, which I might never have had if the title of one of my recent books from Eternal Press wasn't UNWANTED.
My book takes Ella, a virgin librarian who happens to have red hair and green eyes on a strange journey. She hasn't felt particulary unwanted on Earth, though she's never yet found a man she's been willing to give herself to--body and soul. But when her old Beemer with its bare tires skids during a thunderstorm in the Sierras, she's about to discover just how unwanted she can be elsewhere.
When the car skids off the cliff, she tries to jump out before it goes over, but fails. Since she's out of the car, which smashes down the mountain side, she's lucky enough to fall through one of Earth's gates and begins drifting down into the Underworld. This Underworld has nothing to do with Satan, simply being an alternate world connected by shfting gates to other alternate worlds such as Earth.
Unfortunately, she isn't so lucky about the country she falls into. In this land, red-haired females with green eyes are considered to be evil witches who will doom the kingdom and, therefore, are killed on sight.
Prince Stavos, heir to the throne, is pounding away from the palace on his mount, furious at his father, the king. Why? Because the king wants his son to marry a princess neither of them has ever seen, just to cement a union between his country and hers. Stavos knows he must marry some day, but intends to choose his own bride when that day comes. This proposition is intolerable. In his anger, he doesn't realize he's entered a verboten area that's best avoided.
When he sees something floating down from above, he pulls up short, understanding he's strayed into the bad area. But his curiosity keeps him there until the body falls to earth and lays still. At closer range he sees it's a young women--but, horrors, she has red hair! He hops off his mount and pulls his sword free, ready to rid his country of this menace...
Does he kill her? Would there be a story if he does? Of course not. So what prevents him?
So our unlucky heroine, Ella, is not killed on sight. But if the prince doesn't kill her, the next native of this land who sees her surely will. Impossible situation--right?
I think writers must enjoy writing themselves into a corner and then having to figure a reasonable way out because we all do it time after time. Maybe that's part of the fun of telling ourselves a new story, because that's what each of us is doing, time after time. Doesn't matter if we're pantser or plotter, each time we do it the story is new to us. All we need to do is make it reasonable to other readers.
Sounds easy? Most of the time it's not. It's that "reasonable" business that makes it hard.
All this doesn't solve the problem on Earth's unwanted of Valentine's Day--so how about calling someone you know may not be a lucky wanted one and inviting them somewhere for coffee or a drink? That's what I'm going to do.
How does Unwanted turn out? You can check my webiste for an except and buy link: http://www.JaneToombs.com or leave a comment and maybe be the lucky winner of a download.
Jane