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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I really enjoyed this book – the characters were fun and witty and the story line was catchy.
Better than Cinderella
A fun read and a clean romance is always welcome!
Loved this book. A quick easy read!
Loved the characters in this book.
Fast read, enjoyable.
Delightful method of daughter of founder of King’s Department store using her creative decorations in windows of the large store to advertise family dynamics of herself and Prince Charming to bolster sales. She was unaware he was forced to purchase the store from her wicked step mother in order to marry the despised daughter of her late husband. …
This was a very updated version of the Cinderella story and a a bit of the “Gift of the Magi” as well. It shows if people would just talk to each other, so much could be avoided.
Cute,easy read.
C
Modern Cinderella story.
The book can’t decide if it’s contemporary or historical but still entertaining.
Loved this book.
So very romantic. Loved it!
This series is a grown up twist on fairy tails but the author makes it work. I liked all three books. The characters were solid. The stories just the right amount of an updated interpretation of the classics. They’re cute and sufficiently interesting. Sex but not over the top. So, yes to all three.
Quick summertime read, cute take on the Cinderella story
Loved this book.
It was heart warming
Looking forward to reading more in the series
I enjoyed “If the Show Fits,” a blazing fast, fun tale borrowing from “Cinderella.” The stepmother is as evil as one would expect, but the stepsisters are a nice surprise.
This book was adorable…Cinderella storyline, sweet characters. First chapter was deceiving…I almost quit reading, but so glad I didn’t.