The Charming Way
()
About this ebook
Mellie has a secret: she blames fairy tales for ruining her life. She believes she can stop fairy tales from ruining other people’s lives by forcing booksellers to stop selling fairy tales. But on the way to her protest at a book fair, she runs into a handsome man. A very handsome man who isn’t just her Prince Charming—he’s THE Prince Charming. And he loves books. Even fairy tales.
Kristine Grayson
Before turning to romance writing, award-winning author Kristine Grayson edited the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and ran Pulphouse Publishing (which won her a World Fantasy Award). She has won the Romantic Times Reviewer’s Choice Award and, under her real name, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, the prestigious Hugo award. She lives with her own Prince Charming, writer Dean Wesley Smith, in Portland, Oregon.
Read more from Kristine Grayson
Cosmic Balances Inc. Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHidden Charm: A Fates Universe Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Charming Way Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsName-Calling Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGeeks Bearing Gifts Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDressed in Holiday Style Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsVisions of Sugar Plums Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Up on the Rooftop Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsStanding Up For Grace Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to The Charming Way
Related ebooks
Geek Romance: Stories of Love Amidst the Oddballs Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMagnetism: Book 6 of the Venus as She Ages Collection Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Little Princess (Diversion Illustrated Classics) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Contact: And Other Stories Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Little Princess Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Cool for America: Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Bench of Desolation (1909) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Bostonians Vol. II. (1886) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Little Country Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Moon Pinnace Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Female Short Story. A Chronological History: Volume 9 - Alice Dunbar Nelson to Katherine Rickford Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHouse of Bells Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEagle Eye: A Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsKipps Annotated Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCommon Sense Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Little Princess (Unabridged) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsKipps: The Story of a Simple Soul Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFlowers for Mei-Ling Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Scandal at Midnight: A scandalous Regency marriage story Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Bartender's Secret Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Polyphonic Sorceress Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Helper: A dark crime thriller packed with twists Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Loudest Unspoken Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Ivory Tower Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsKipps Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMuslin Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBright Young Things Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Out of Splinters and Ashes Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIn Bloom, Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A LITTLE PRINCESS - The book the film was based upon Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Fantasy For You
Fairy Tale Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sarah J. Maas: Series Reading Order - with Summaries & Checklist Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Phantom Tollbooth Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Priory of the Orange Tree Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Fellowship Of The Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Lord Of The Rings: One Volume Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Empire of the Vampire Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tress of the Emerald Sea: Secret Projects, #1 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Warrior of the Light: A Manual Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This Is How You Lose the Time War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Nettle & Bone Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Piranesi Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hell House: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Malice: Award-winning epic fantasy inspired by the Iron Age Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Silmarillion Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Picture of Dorian Gray (The Original 1890 Uncensored Edition + The Expanded and Revised 1891 Edition) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Daughter of the Forest: Book One of the Sevenwaters Trilogy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Assassin and the Empire: A Throne of Glass Novella Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Eyes of the Dragon Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mistborn: Secret History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Wizard's First Rule Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Talisman: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Assassin and the Pirate Lord: A Throne of Glass Novella Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Don Quixote: [Complete & Illustrated] Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Assassin and the Desert: A Throne of Glass Novella Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for The Charming Way
0 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
The Charming Way - Kristine Grayson
The Charming Way
Kristine Grayson
WMG Publishing Inc.Contents
The Charming Way
About the Author
Also by Kristine Grayson
Also by Kristine Grayson
The Charming Way
BOOK FAIR.
The very words of the sign filled Mellie with loathing. Book Fair indeed. More like Book Unfair.
Every time someone wrote something down, they got it wrong. She’d learned that in her exceptionally long life.
Not that she was old—not by any stretch. In fact, by the standards of her people, she was in early middle age. She’d been in early middle age, it seemed, for most of her adult life. Of course that wasn’t true. She’d only been in early middle age for her life in the public eye—two very different things.
And now she was paying for it.
She stood with her hands on her hips (which hadn’t expanded [much] since she was a beautiful young girl, who caught the eye of every man) and looked at the pavilion, with the banner strung across its multitude of doors.
The Largest Book Fair in the World! the banner proclaimed in bright red letters. The largest book fair with the largest number of publishers, writers, readers and moguls—movie and gaming and every other type the entertainment industry had come up with.
It probably should be called Mogul Fair (Mogul Unfair?). But they weren’t pitching Moguls (although someone probably should; it was her experience that anyone with a shred of power [present company included] should be pitched across a room [or down a staircase] every now and then); they were pitching books.
This season’s books, next season’s books, books for every race, creed, and constituency, large books, small books and the all-important evergreen books which were not, as she once believed, books about evergreens, but books that never went out of style, like Little Women or anything by Jane Austen or, dammit, that villain Hans Christian Andersen.
Not that he started it all. He didn’t. It was those Grimm brothers, two better named individuals she had never met.
It didn’t matter that Mellie had set them straight. By then, their tales
were already on the market, poisoning the well, so to speak. (Or the apple. Those boys did love their poisons. It would have been so much better for all concerned if they had turned their attention to crime fiction. They could have invented the entire category. But noooo. They had to focus on what they called fairies
as misnamed as their little tales.
) She made herself breathe. Even alone with her own thoughts, she couldn’t help going on a bit