Slippers and Thorns

A duty-focused prince. A lonely princess. A marriage of true love…or not?

Michael and Ella thought life would be perfect after they married. True love, right? However, mixing a dutiful crown prince and a servant girl isn’t a recipe for bliss. Add a too-friendly guard, a dash of jealousy, and a mysterious, abandoned castle, and you have a recipe for disaster.

When Michael accidentally wakes his childhood sweetheart from her enchanted slumber, he’s confronted with her declaration that it’s true love. The obvious solution? Divorce his wife so they can be together. Now, he faces the choice of his life: does he stick with an imperfect marriage or cut his losses for the sake of “true love”?

When happily ever after isn’t a fairytale, is it worth fighting for?

In this reimagining of

Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty, a young couple’s beliefs about love are put to the test as they discover the truth behind true love. It is the first book in The Roumaterra Chronicles, a series of interconnected, standalone fairytale retellings perfect for readers of Brittany Fichter and Celeste Baxendell.

*This story contains a struggling marriage and redemption from emotional cheating arc