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Fooling Around with Cinderella
Storybook Valley #1
Stacy Juba
Released November 9th, 2015
Self Published
What happens when the glass slippers pinch Cinderella's toes?
When Jaine Andersen proposes a new marketing role to the local amusement park, general manager Dylan Callahan charms her into filling Cinderella’s glass slippers for the summer. Her reign transforms Jaine’s ordinary life into chaos that would bewilder a fairy godmother. Secretly dating her bad boy boss, running wedding errands for her ungrateful sisters, and defending herself from the park’s resident villain means Jaine needs lots more than a comfy pair of shoes to restore order in her kingdom.
First in the Storybook Valley series, a blend of sweet romance, chick lit, and fairy tale fun.
Dylan scrutinized Jaine,
arms folded across his royal blue shirt with the Storybook Valley logo stamped
over the left in white block letters. “Do you wear contacts?”
“I have plenty of media
contacts. Wait. Did you say wear contacts? You mean instead of these?” Jaine
fingered the earpiece of her gold-rimmed glasses.
“Right. Contact lenses.”
She gave a nervous
chuckle. “I scheduled a consultation in college, but was too squeamish to
insert the lens. I was more comfortable in glasses.”
Was she really justifying
her vision enhancement choices to her prospective new boss? Maybe he intended
to discuss medical benefits. Or did he think she looked nerdy? What was the
saying? Guys don’t make passes at girls who wear glasses? Not that she wanted
him to make a pass even if he was hot.
“How blind are you without
glasses?” Dylan persisted.
“You wouldn’t want to
drive with me.”
“How about if you’re
walking around a building? Are you in danger of hurting yourself?”
This interview had taken
the Mad Hatter Freeway from Fairy Tale Land into Wonderland where nothing made
a damn bit of sense. Did this guy have a glasses fetish, like those weirdoes
with shoe fetishes?
“I should be okay. I take
them off for special occasions.” In fact, Jaine’s older sister Bree, who was
getting married in August, remarked just last week, “You are losing the glasses
for my wedding pictures, right?”
What the hell. She’d be a
good sport and hope Dylan would be so grateful to pick the brain of a real,
flesh and blood, bespectacled person that he would appoint her marketing
director. Jaine removed her glasses and the fine details of her surroundings
fuzzed. She nodded toward the framed print hanging on a side wall, the picture
a wash of symbols and colors. “I can tell that’s a park map, but the words and
images smear together.”
And that was myopia in a
nutshell. Jaine adjusted her glasses back into place so she could see his
reaction. Dylan examined her with such intensity that a blush stained her cheeks.
She patted her blonde French braid, in case stray strands were straggling out.
“Here’s the situation,”
Dylan said. “I took over the general manager position a few months ago. I’m
evaluating possible changes and researching how other theme parks run. My
grandfather and father have worked with a marketing firm for years to create
our brochures, billboards, print, and radio ads.”
Jaine’s shoulders caved,
imperceptible to him, but it felt as if her whole body was sinking.
No fairy tale job ending
for her.
Stacy Juba got engaged at Epcot Theme Park and spent part of her honeymoon at Disneyland Paris, where she ate a burger, went on fast rides, and threw up on the train ride to the hotel. In addition to working on her new Storybook Valley chick lit/sweet romance series, Stacy has written books about ice hockey, teen psychics, U.S. flag etiquette for kids, and determined women sleuths. She has had a novel ranked as #5 in the Nook Store and #30 on the Amazon Kindle Paid List.
When she’s not visiting theme parks with her family, (avoiding rides that spin and exotic hamburgers), or writing about them, Stacy helps authors to strengthen their manuscripts through her Crossroads Editing Service. She is currently writing the next book in the Storybook Valley Series, Prancing Around with Sleeping Beauty.
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