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Someone Else’s Shoes – Cinderella Retelling

by Aldrea Alien

Someone Else's Shoes - Aldrea Alien - Princesses of the Sands
Part of the Princesses of the Sands series:
  • Someone Else's Shoes - Cinderella Retelling
Editions:Kindle: $ 0.99
ISBN: B08Y8G78WV

Stepping out in borrowed shoes has never been so dangerous.
Stripped of her inheritance as a child by a greedy stepmother, Alla’s future hovers between drudgery and slavery. Having spent years toiling in the mansion that was once her happy home, tending to her stepmother’s every whim, she has long since put aside any thoughts of a better future.

When a chance encounter in the marketplace leaves her with an invitation to the upcoming ball, her only opportunity to play out an old dream of seeing inside the palace walls is by being someone she’s not. A farce that could see her executed or sold.

But will she be able to maintain the illusion once she meets Princess Viktoriya?

This book is on:
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Genres:
Fantasy, Fantasy - Fairy Tale / Folklore, Fantasy - High & Other World, Lesfic, People of Color

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Pairings: F-NB
Heat Level: 2
Romantic Content: 5
Ending: Click here to reveal
Character Identities: Lesbian, Transgender
Protagonist 1 Age: 18-25
Protagonist 2 Age: 18-25
Tropes: Class Differences, Death of Parent, Fairy Tales Revisited, InstaLove / Love at First Sight, Meet Cute, Mistaken Identity, Rescue
Word Count: 44000
Languages Available: English
Series Type: Same Universe / Various Characters

Was originally published in the USA Today Bestselling book Once Upon Another World.

About the Author

Aldrea Alien is a multi-award-winning, USA Today Bestselling, bisexual & genderqueer author from New Zealand who writes fantasy romance of varying heat levels.

She grew up on a small farm out the back blocks of a place known as Wainuiomata alongside a menagerie of animals, who are all convinced they’re just as human as the next person (especially the cats). Aldrea now lives in Upper Hutt, on yet another small farm with a less hectic, but still egotistical, group of animals (cats will be cats), and published her first book in 2014. One thing she hasn’t yet found is an off switch to give her an ounce of peace from the characters plaguing her mind, a list that grows bigger every year with all of them clamouring for her to tell their story first. It’s a lot of people for one head.

 

Aldrea is the author of…

Dark One's Trilogy
– Dark One's Mistress
– Dark One's Bride
– Dark One's Wife – Release TBA

 

Spellster Series
– The Leap to Freedom
– Willow
– Someone Else's Shoes: A Cinderella Retelling

– To Target the Heart: A Tale of Two Princes #1
– To Poison a Prince: A Tale of Two Princes #2

– Tracking Trouble: Spellster and the Hound #0
– In Pain and Blood: Spellster and the Hound #1
– And the World Crumbled: Spellster and the Hound #1.5
– In Love and Death: Spellster and the Hound #2 – Re-release 7th Nov 2024
– In Hope and Freedom: Spellster and the Hound #3 – Re-release TBA
– An Unexpected Gift: Spellster and the Hound #3.5 – Re-release TBA

In Pain and Blood was 2nd in the 2018 Connections eMagazine Reader’s Choice Award (Sci-fi, Paranormal & Fantasy Category) and a finalist in the 2018 The Wishing Shelf Awards
To Target the Heart was 1st in the 2020 Connections eMagazine Reader’s Choice Award (Sci-fi, Paranormal & Fantasy Category) and a finalist in the 2020 The Wishing Shelf Awards
Someone Else's Shoes was originally published in the USA Today Bestselling book Once Upon Another World.