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FOOLING AROUND WITH CINDERELLA
Storybook Valley #1
Stacy Juba
Released November 9th, 2015
Self Published
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.
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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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