Everyone knows the story of Cinderella, where the poor orphan girl is mistreated by her step-family and is eventually freed by her fairy godmother. But what if Cinderella was the evil one? Meet Cynthia Tremaine, a spoiled rich girl who orders the servants around, is nasty to her stepmother and two stepsisters, and refuses to change, despite her father's insistent begging. Dad has had enough and makes a birthday wish. With the puff of a few candles, a fairy godmother arrives and turns Cynthia into a maid. She now has until midnight on New Year's Eve to alter her behavior or she'll be a servant girl forever. Can she make such a drastic change?

After a successful mission, Laura Black and her colleagues finally feel free to live the "normal lives" they have desired for so long. But, after only eight months of an ordinary existence, team members discover they are still in danger. Apparently, their mission is far from over. Banding together to confront their hidden foe, the misfit group prepares to fight the war of their lives. The battle will be bloody, the losses great, but Laura and the team are determined to find their happily ever after. Whatever it costs.

Every morning, psychologist Dr. Brian Manifold wakes up to a catatonic wife and the memory of an accident he'd rather forget. In order to escape the frequent panic attacks, delusions, and recurring dreams of a hideous beast, he embraces an aberrant behavior that makes coping with reality easier to handle. But when the hospital administrator worries that Brian may be a danger to his patients and to himself, and orders him to see a therapist, there's no way for him to escape the horror that the truth reveals.

Christmas is dragging her feet to her fortieth birthday, dreading the realization that she will never marry. In a vain effort to feel better, she begins to reminisce about her youth. The year is 1955 in Ashabula, Ohio. Chris and her siblings are attractive young women forbidden to date until they are adults. When the gardener's son Elijah begins to pursue Chris, despite her stubborn heart, she falls hard. When her mother finds out, a tragedy occurs and Chris turns her back on the only man she would ever love. Is it too late for her? Or is it possible that her romantic journey is just beginning?

Romance. 33033 words long.