Prince Gabriel Albrecht-Frederick William von Aschenberg of Warl-Marburg-Baalsfeld needs an heiress to fund the upkeep of Pomeroy Castle and feed its ever increasing inhabitants. However, to help a particular family of tenants, she, along with Lord Dimsdale, otherwise known as Algie, set out to convince Prince Gabriel that Victoria and Algie should marry. When Mariana demands that Kate attend a ball posing as Victoria, her beautiful stepsister, with Victoria’s own fiancé in order to meet and get the approval of his relatives, even Kate is unsure she will be able to pull it off. And, like the fairytale, Kate becomes the maid-of-all-work and defender of the estate’s tenants, yet she has backbone and gives as good as she gets from her greedy, materialistic stepmother. Unfortunately for all concerned, he died soon after, leaving Kate in the hands of her stepmother, Mariana. Three weeks after her mother’s death, Katherine Daltry’s father remarried and brought home a stepmother and stepsister for Katherine. The first of this series, A Kiss at Midnight is certainly a lighthearted Cinderella story with a few new twists and turns. I’m a sucker for a fairytale especially if it’s Cinderella inspired, and Eloisa James’ new Fairy Tales series appeals to me for that very reason.
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