What happens when a modern day Cinderella’s dreams don’t involve getting married?
Romance? Love? In this Once Upon A Romance Series Book 1 romantic comedy, Charlotte (Charlie) King doesn’t have time for either one. All she wants is her late father’s dream to come true by making his beloved King’s Department Store thrive again. However, her stepmother has other ideas. Charlie agrees to help her … agrees to help her stepmother find grooms for her sheltered stepsisters. In exchange, the stepmother will release her stronghold on the store’s budget. After all, one good deed deserves another, right? But, Charlie has no idea what her heart’s in for when…
Alexander (Alex) Royale, dubbed by society newspapers as Prince Charming, arrives for dinner to meet the all-female King family. His ailing grandparents yearn for his marriage and then the baby carriage. Well, that and running the family company. Having unsuccessfully searched for months, Alex doesn’t hold out any hope in finding his future bride among the King sisters. However, all his expectations, including his idea of a business-like marriage of convenience, vanish the moment Charlie crashes into him.
When Alex sets out out to win over Charlotte, he has no idea he has to bargain with the stepmother, secretly buy the store, court Charlotte after the wedding, and, oh yeah, be featured in Charlie’s new fairy tale ad campaign, The Charmings, based on them. Can a guy ever get a break?
The couple never factored in falling in love with each other. Now, faced with losing all their families ever wanted, Charlie and Alex must choose: Do they live their families’ dreams or do they finally live their own?
This is the first book in the contemporary romantic comedy trilogy Once Upon a Romance
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IF the SHOE FITS by Laurie LeClair, is a quick fun read. Businessman Alex Royale meets Charlie King and his world is turned upside down. This is a uniquely twisted Cinderella and Prince Charming tale with the added attraction of Dolly and Edward.
I love the characters and their exuberance for life.
Quick easy read. Story was a cross between Cinderella and the Mannequin movie. Fast movie story maybe a bit rushed. Good cast of characters.
I would actually rate “If The Shoe Fits” (nook) as 3-1/2 stars rather than 3 stars. The story is interesting and fun but there were a couple of situations that were unrealistic.
This is a new twist on Cinderella. Kinda modern day. He isn’t ‘a royal’… it is his last name; her’s is King. There is a wicked stepmother. It is a quick read. If you are totally opposed to descriptions of having sex they are easily skipped. Parents should never demand promised futures from their children.
A nice, well written story with engaging characters. No foul language, no sexual situations. I highly recommend adding it to your reading list.
Loved this book.
A King & A Royale what a match
Charlotte King is late getting to get step mom’s house to help set her sister up to meet Mr. Prince Charming, better known as Alex Royale. She is trying to save her father’s store. But Alex fall for Charlie & not her step sisters. They are not bad girls. She just wants to save the store. Her step mom sets it up for …