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The Storybook Bride

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A magical dance. A storybook prince. The slipper fits, but will it ever come off?

Nora Nilsdotter might be a daughter of a lowly cobbler and a castle stitch-girl, but once she’s invited to the prince’s Selection Ball, she’s certain how the rest of her story should go. Afterall, she has the occasionally-irritable-and-quite-possibly-evil stepsisters. She even has a mysterious and glamourous pair of ruby dance-slippers. She might not love the prince, but what does that matter? This is her chance to make things in the kingdom better for all the other peasant girls just like her.

But when a handsome guard from her past seems determined to set her heart racing and expose all her secrets, can she still rewrite her story to become the prince’s bride? Or are all her dreams as cursed as a certain pair of red shoes?

The Storybook Bride is a clean romantic and comedic fantasy inspired by the Red Shoes and other fairytales. This story takes place at the same time as The Swan Bride and can be read in any order.

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Chelsea K10 / 10

“This is the first real Retelling of Red Shoes that I have read and I thought it was a very enjoyable story. I loved the character Jarl and enjoyed seeing him and Nora together. This story takes place during the same timeframe as The Swan Bride: A Swan Lake Retelling and is more enjoyable when they are read together however they can each be read as…”

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Jacque Stevens

Jacque Stevens has always been drawn to stories where shadows hold secrets and love has to fight to survive. Long before she became a USA Today bestselling author, she was a nursing student scribbling chapters between shifts, escaping into worlds filled with fae bargains, broken crowns, and the kind of magic that…

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