Cathy is used to making the beds—not slipping between their sheets! Arrogant Prince Xaviero has one rule: once he's taught Cathy everything he knows, their affair will be over. But when the King of Zaffirinthos is taken ill, Xaviero is forced to take up his role as prince regent. The voluptuous curves of meek Cathy still haunt his dreams, and he vows to hold this humble maid to his special kind of prince's ransom!

Cathy is used to making the beds – not slipping between their sheets!

The Prince's Housekeeper Bride by Carol Marinelli released on Jan 01, 2008 is available now for purchase.

“Enchanting, witty” fairy tales for adults from Peter Straub, Daniel Quinn, Nancy Kress, Patricia C. Wrede, and other modern-day Grimms and Andersens (Publishers Weekly). World Fantasy Award–winning editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling return with another superb collection of wonders and terrors. In Black Thorn, White Rose, the magical tales we were told at bedtime have been upended, turned inside out, reshaped, and given a keen, distinctly adult edge by eighteen of the most acclaimed storytellers ever to reinvent a fairy tale. Our favorite characters, from Sleeping Beauty to Rumpelstiltskin to the Gingerbread Man, are here but in different guises, brought to new life by such masters as Nancy Kress, Jane Yolen, Storm Constantine, and the late, great Roger Zelazny. These breathtaking tales of dark enchantments range from the tragic and poignant to the humorous to the horrifying to the simply astonishing. The story of an aging woodcutter persuaded to help a desperate prince make his way through the brambles to save a sleeping beauty twists ingeniously around like the thorny wall that impedes them. The fable of an all-controlling queen mother who faces her most fearsome adversary in a sensitive princess who appears mysteriously during a storm is a dark, disturbing masterpiece. And readers will long remember the exquisite tale of Death, his godson, football, and MTV. Anyone who has ever loved or even feared the old tales of witches and trolls and remarkable transformations will find much to admire in this extraordinary collection—happily ever after or not.

When a single mother meets a dashing Italian auteur, their Cinderella story takes a surprising Hollywood turn in this delightful romance. Single mother Sarah Halliday isn’t much for games. But the scavenger hunt for her sister’s hen night requires her to find an eligible bachelor . . . in a small pub in Oxfordshire. As a housekeeper pushing thirty, Sarah feels uniquely unqualified for the task—until she finds herself mid-flirtation with the sexiest Italian man she’s ever seen. Filmmaker Lorenzo Cavalleri has come to England to scout locations for an upcoming movie. Disillusioned with Hollywood, he’s desperate to find something real. He had no idea that “something” would be the demure yet delicious Sarah. But even if he’s found his Cinderella, their road to Happily Ever After won’t be so simple—when he discovers that she’s the mystery woman standing in the way of his masterpiece!

The Tower of Babel (imagine The Lord of the Rings / The Hobbit meet Cinderella & Disney's Frozen) & The New Picasso are from award-winning writer Jonathan David Sloate, who composed scores for the Mortal Kombat franchise, Academy Awards winner Sense and Sensibility, Beowulf, the ShoWest Awards, & movies starring Kate Winslet (Titanic), Hugh Grant (Notting Hill), Tom Wilkinson (Batman Begins, Shakespeare in Love, Rush Hour), Emma Thompson (Nanny McPhee, Harry Potter), Alan Rickman (Die Hard, Robin Hood), Christopher Lambert (Highlander), Clancy Brown (Shawshank Redemption, SpongeBob SquarePants), Brian Tochi (Police Academy, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), Olivia d'Abo (Wayne's World 2), Cree Summer (Rugrats), Luke Perry (Beverly Hills 90210), Dorian Harewood (Full Metal Jacket), Ron Perlman (Alien, Blade II, Hellboy), Paolo Montalban (The King and I), Daniel Bernhardt (The Matrix Reloaded), Kristanna Loken (Terminator 3), Jon Cryer (Two and a Half Men), Kate Burton (Grey's Anatomy), & Claire Danes (Homeland).