The Cinderella Romance Series

 

GENRE:  Contemporary Romance

 

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BLURB:

 

The Cinderella Romances...Fall in love with the fairy tale all over again.

 

Modern-day Cinderella stories that provide unlimited opportunities to retell the classic fairy tale, happily with returning characters to share in these adventures.

 

Cinderella Busted

 

Once upon a time, in Jupiter Island, Florida . . .

 

Billionaire developer, Rhett Buchanan, is forced to inspect a shipment of priceless trees and meets the girl of his dreams instead. A bit jaded where women are concerned—since most are gold diggers—Rhett falls head over heels for the Jupiter Island socialite who only wants him, not his money. Except she isn't the glamorous socialite she appears to be.

 

She's the gardener . . .

 

Betting on Cinderella

 

Once upon a time in Biloxi, Mississippi . . .

 

Garrett Tucker inherits his grandfather's casino empire and steps into the reclusive billionaire's shoes as the new "Prince of Vegas." Discovering embezzlement in his newly purchased casino in Biloxi, Garrett goes in undercover. His prime suspect? The new finance supervisor . . . a feisty brunette who stole his heart at first sight. 

 

Andi Ryan moves to Biloxi to care for her godmother. Taking a job as finance supervisor for the renovated Bayou Princess casino, she discovers someone is skimming from the till. Andi starts her own investigation, worried she will be blamed for the theft when the handsome new owner discovers her godmother likes to gamble.

 

Industrial espionage is afoot at the Bayou Princess, and Garrett and Andi are soon forced to work as a team to prove her innocence and save the casino before it’s too late.

 

This swoonworthy modern-day fairy tale joins the other stories in the Cinderella Romances series. Each provides a new opportunity to retell the classic fairy tale, happily with returning characters to share in these adventures.

 

Par for Cinderella

 

Once upon a time in Cedar Key, Florida . . .

 

Golf resort developer Aidan Cross is at loose ends. Something feels missing from his life, but that something isn't women. He has too many women chasing him now. To confuse things even more, his yacht breaks down off-shore of his next project site in Florida, and Aidan falls for his only competition in the small town—a woman who wants nothing to do with him or his rakish charm.

 

Casey Stuart is stuck living in Cypress Key, unwilling to abandon her uncle or the golf course they manage together. She doesn't quite trust the stranger Aidan who shows up in town looking for work, and she vows to steer clear of him and the danger their intense chemistry provokes. Aidan’s stay is temporary, and falling for him promises only heartbreak. 

 

But Casey needs Aidan’s help when she discovers Cypress Key’s mayor is making underhanded business deals, and she ends up on the wrong side of the powerful crook. Aidan steps in to rescue her, but secrets from his past threaten to bogey their new-found affair. 

 

This swoonworthy modern-day fairy tale joins the other Cinderella stories in the series. Each provides a new opportunity to retell the classic fairy tale, happily with returning characters to share in these adventures.

Excerpt One:

 

from Book One: Cinderella Busted

 

“Do you buy a lot of plants here?” Buchanan suddenly asked.

 

Her head snapped up from examining a bent gray frond. She swallowed. “Buy?”

 

“You must be one of the nursery’s best customers as well as you know the stock and know your way around here.” He gave her that slow, sexy smile again. “Are you buying landscaping for business or pleasure?”

 

Oh good grief! He thinks I’m a customer.

 

But why wouldn’t he? Today, she was dressed like one. Surely, he could tell from their conversation she worked here at the nursery. 

 

Or not. 

 

He waited for a response. So that was why he had asked her to help him! She grinned. She couldn’t help it. She felt like Cinderella masquerading as a princess at the ball. Maybe she could just avoid answering his question altogether. 

 

She guided him to the end of the aisle, made the turn to the fifth row of trees, and aimed their steps toward a cluster of Monterrey pines. 

 

Buchanan put a hand out to stop her. “I hope you’ll let me take you to dinner to thank you for helping me, Lily.”

Interview for Hope Dreams Life Love with Petie McCarty

 

1. Did you always want to be an author?

Actually no, though I have always told stories, both to myself as a kid with my dolls and to others as an adult. I didn’t officially start writing until I was in my forties when I kept seeing movies running in my head. No, really. Film-like features in full color. I just wrote as fast as I could to keep up. 😊

 

2. Tell us about the publication of your first book.

I first tried to secure an agent and that is harder than getting published. I got enough rejection emails and letters to wallpaper my small office. Once I got over thinking I needed an agent, I realized that an electronic publisher was probably going to be my best bet as a starting author. My first book under contract was actually the fifth book I had written. I screamed like a little girl when I got the email. 😊 The good news was the first four stories were picked up fairly quickly after the first book was published.

 

3. Besides yourself, who is your favorite author in the genre you write in?

I have quite a few, but my all-time favorite is Jennifer Crusie, tied with Rachel Gibson.

 

4. What is the best part of being an author? The worst?

The absolute best part is starting a new book and having no idea or no for sure, for sure idea of how the story is going to end. It is the journey to reach the end that is magical. The worst is getting a review from someone who thought your book sucked. 😂 That’s never fun. 

 

5. What are you working on now?

Cinderella on the Rocks, Book 4 in my Cinderella Romances series is up next. 

A beautiful Yank is hired by the wicked stepmother of a hunky Scottish Highlander whisky distiller to steal his proprietary recipe for single malt. She parades into the little village as a travel journalist to gain access to his distillery. The sexy Highlander, Ian MacVicar, appeared in Par for Cinderella, and he falls for his little fibber-thief. 

 

AUTHOR Bio and Links:

 

 Petie spent a large part of her career working at Walt Disney World—"The  Most Magical Place on Earth"—where she enjoyed working in the land of fairy tales by day and creating her own romantic fairy tales by night, including her new series, The Cinderella Romances. She eventually said good-bye to her "day" job to write her stories full-time. These days Petie spends her time writing sequels to her regency time-travel series, Lords in Time, and her cozy-mystery-with-romantic-suspense series, the Mystery Angel Romances.

 

Petie shares her home on the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee with her horticulturist husband and an opinionated Nanday conure named Sassy who made a cameo appearance in No Angels for Christmas. 

 

Visit Petie's web site online at http://www.petiemccarty.com or her Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/petie.mccarty.

 

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