Fairy-tale Inheritance Series

"CINDERELLA'S DRESS was like a stroll through the 1940's with a magical twist and a sprinkling of fashion. Highly recommend for all in need of a happily ever after." On the home front in 1944, Kate wants to do her part for the war effort. She'd prefer filling in for the window dressers at the New York department store where she works, but her mother insists on sending her to audition for roles she never gets. When relatives arrive from war-torn Poland with a mysterious steamer trunk and an even more mysterious story, her life is about to hit center stage. Kate's elderly aunt claims she is the keeper of the wardrobe for Cinderella's family--the real Cinderella. Her responsibility is to keep the dress safe and now she wants Kate's help. But the war has taken a toll on Kate's aunt and nothing is as it seems. While navigating family and first love, Kate will have to uncover layers of family secrets as her own secrets stack up. Will she get to the truth before it's forgotten? If you like the magic and warmth of fairytale retellings, then you'll love this continuation of the Cinderella story. Pick it up today.                                              What is the reading order for the Fairy-tale Inheritance Series? The Cinderella books go together, but the other books in the Fairy-tale Inheritance Series can be read in any order as stand-alone novels. If you'd like a reading order, you can follow this one: Cinderella's Dress Cinderella's Shoes Cinderella's Legacy (prequel novella) Snow White's Mirror Beauty's Rose Sleeping Beauty's Spindle The Little Mermaid's Voice

Some things stepsisters never forget. Now that Kate Allen knows about her family's unique connection to a fairy tale, she sets her sights on finding the magical glass slippers. The Kolodenkos claim Cinderella's shoes have been lost to the family, but Kate is convinced she knows where they are. Or at least, who might know where they are. With her dad still missing, Kate could use a pair of shoes with the power to reunite loved ones. But to find the famous glass slippers, she'll have to get around the tight-lipped Kolodenko family and travel to post WWII Poland. As official keeper of the wardrobe for Cinderella's heirlooms, she's learning that balancing alliances between Cinderella's heirs and the stepsister's descendants may cost her more than she's willing to give up. Can she stop a family feud that has lasted for centuries? Find out now in this exciting follow-up to the novel Cinderella's Dress.

Old family secrets will not stay hidden... Billie's uncle is convinced the stories his sister tells about the Bergmann family history are true. A magic mirror. A family of dwarfs. And he'll do anything to command the mirror, even if it means using unsuspecting Billie. Socialite Billie likes a treasure hunt as much as the next girl, so she follows her uncle to an out-of-the-way mining town in Arizona where she meets an odd array of characters, including one rugged boy unlike any she's met before. More than anything, Billie hopes the magic mirror holds a cure to her mother's mysterious illness. But after making a critical mistake, Billie risks walking away from this baffling town with nothing.  It's up to her to solve the problem that has been plaguing her family for centuries, or lose it all... including the boy who stole her heart. Set in an early 1900s mining boomtown, it's Edwardian era meets the Wild West. If you like fairy tales and YA romance, read Snow White's Mirror today.

A boy destined to become a beast... And a girl determined to save him. Margot's been invited to the medieval town of Chapais, France for a reunion of the town's descendants. She plans to stay with her aunt, who lives above the family bookshop inside the ancient walled city. Little does she know that three fairies have called her there to help a beastly teenage boy break the curse that has plagued his family for generations. Proud and arrogant, the boy pushes everyone away until Margot finds a way to reach him. But when they get close to breaking the curse, the romantic summer turns into a nightmare. Can they set the beast free before it's too late? Beauty's Rose is the latest installment in the Fairy-tale Inheritance Series of historical fairy tales. Set in the 1980s, it is inspired by the 1756 version of Beauty and the Beast by French novelist Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont.

Hidden for generations, Sleeping Beauty's cursed spindle resurfaces...    In 1894 Vermont, Briar Rose is determined to keep her orphaned siblings together. She's set her sights on marrying an ambitious young man to take them out of the cotton mills and back to the Old Country. Trouble is, he no longer cares for her.    Childhood chum Henry Prince would like to step in, but sweet as he is, can't offer what her family needs.    When a peddler gives Briar a spindle made from fairy wood said to have magical properties, she has a chance to keep her family together. Desperate to increase her production at the mill, she sneaks the spindle onto her spinning frame.    But Briar has no idea of the power she has unleashed.   One by one, the mill girls succumb to a sleeping sickness. To save everyone, Briar must find the strength to break the curse and defeat the evil fairy for good.   For in a world where fairies lurk and curses linger, love can bleed like the prick of a finger…   Sleeping Beauty's Spindle is for fans of fairy tale retellings, sweet romance, and women's history.   Previously published under the title Spindle.                                                                                                                                              The Fairy-tale Inheritance Series can be read in any order. Aside from the Cinderella books, they are all stand-alone novels. But if you'd like a reading order, you can follow this one:   Cinderella's Dress Cinderella's Shoes Cinderella's Legacy (a novella) Snow White's Mirror Beauty's Rose Sleeping Beauty's Spindle

Would you trade your world for a soul?   Ever since the fateful day when the little mermaid risked everything for a human soul, merpeople have been under lockdown—absolutely no surfacing.   Sea princess Mairin bristles under the restriction and blames humans for her confinement. But when the kingdom comes under attack, the merqueen surprises Mairin by sending her to watch over a human male they've secretly been protecting, the descendant of the little mermaid's prince.   Feeling betrayed by her family, Mairin is all too ready to listen to the sea witch's offer to redeem the little mermaid's mistake and free her people. Using the sea-witch's potion to gain legs and follow the human aboard the Titanic, Mairin sets out to complete the circle of unrequited love. If she can make the descendant fall in love with her, she will win back the freedom of her people.   But as she gets to know the humans, her heart changes toward them. Mairin realizes she has made a bigger mistake than the little mermaid ever did. Can she save the humans and her kingdom?   Based on the original telling of The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen.                                                                                                                                      What is the reading order?   The Cinderella books go together, but the other Fairy-tale Inheritance Series books can be read in any order as stand-alone novels. If you'd like a reading order, you can follow this one:   Cinderella's Dress Cinderella's Shoes Cinderella's Legacy (prequel novella) Snow White's Mirror Beauty's Rose Sleeping Beauty's Spindle The Little Mermaid's Voice