cover image Glass Slippers, Ever After, and Me

Glass Slippers, Ever After, and Me

Julie Wright. Shadow Mountain, $15.99 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-62972-607-6

Wright (Lies Jane Austen Told Me) spins a modern-day and very meta Cinderella tale. Aspiring author Charlotte Kingsley lives in Boston and writes ad copy for an eyewear company as she continues to get rejection letters for her fairy tales. Whenever a rejection upsets her, she leans on her friend Anders Nilsson, and soon a romance blossoms. Charlotte is inspired to write nonfiction and takes time off from her day job to work diligently on a book about living an authentic life, believing that all of her dreams have come true when a small press agrees to publish it. But her freelance publicist—whose fee has consumed every penny Charlotte can scrape up—wants to control every aspect of Charlotte’s life and believes she’ll be more marketable on social media if she pretends to be single, threatening her new romantic relationship with Anders. Charlotte’s friend Lillian Christie, a fellow author full of wise advice, provides her with the stabilizing force to remain true to herself. This fast-paced, lighthearted romance also carries a moral lesson about falsehoods getting in the way of the quest for true happiness. (Oct.)