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    A Cinderella Christmas Carol: A Suddenly Cinderella Series Book
    A Cinderella Christmas Carol: A Suddenly Cinderella Series Book
    A Cinderella Christmas Carol: A Suddenly Cinderella Series Book
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    A Cinderella Christmas Carol: A Suddenly Cinderella Series Book

    By Hope Tarr

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    There's nothing On Top managing editor Cynthia "Starr" Starling hates more than Christmas. With an important deadline looming, plus her dreaded Christmas Day birthday, Starr just wants the holiday to end. But when she wakes up Christmas Eve night to the ghost of Christmas Past, Present, and Future-all in the form of the super-hot Matt Landry, the new art director-she knows she's in for a long night. Matt is the one person on Starr's team she can't boss around and the only one she doesn't need to. He's also her employee and totally off limits, even if he does seem interested. Though he's seven years younger and all kinds of forbidden fruit, he's the form the Powers That Be decided she'd be receptive to. Because they have a message for her: learn the true meaning of Christmas spirit or risk being alone for the rest of her life.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateNov 28, 2012
    ISBN9781622668182
    A Cinderella Christmas Carol: A Suddenly Cinderella Series Book
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    Hope Tarr

    Hope Tarr is the award-winning author of twenty-five historical and contemporary romance novels. She also writes screenplays as Hope C. Tarr – Stolen Kiss with Emmy Award-winning producer and director Linda Yellen is in development – and women’s historical fiction as Hope Carey. Hope is a founder and curator of the original Lady Jane’s Salon® reading series in New York City. Launched in 2009, the Salon donates its net proceeds to the NYC charity, Women in Need, Inc. Visit Hope at her website at www.HopeCTarr.com and follow her on Instagram @hopectarr and Twitter @hopetarr.

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      I liked the second installment in the Suddenly Cinderella series, even though I'm not a big fan of A Christmas Carol itself.This second book/novella is focused on Starr finding love. In the first book, Operation Cinderella, Starr came off being a true witch. I'm not sure if I liked her or not. With A Cinderella Christmas Carol, you actually get to understand Starr a little better. It turns out she's not that bad a person; she's just a little lost.Starr is an almost thirty-five year-old single woman living in New York. Due to the way she grew up, she's all about working hard, having money and possessions to show status. Since she works hard, she expects everyone else to work just as hard, if not harder. She has yet to realize that in order to get people to work for you and respect you, you can't rip them apart and embarrass them. It turns out Starr has no friends outside of work. Well, let me rephrase that....The only person close enough to Starr to be considered a friend either from or outside of work was Macie Graham, who left On Top after a job assignment didn't go the way they planned. Starr feels betrayed because of everything she feels she's done for Macie. She doesn't think Macie should have left, but in actuality, she probably would have fired Macie because of the assignment failure.Starr and Macie haven't spoken with each other since the day Macie quit. Macie has made several attempts at reaching out and contacting Starr, but Starr refuses to talk to her. Being the person that she is, Macie still remembers to send Starr a present for her birthday, a pair of crimson-covered velvet vintage Saks Fifth Avenue heels.My one complaint about the book is that I know ABSOLUTELY nothing about Matt Landry. You get a sense of his character and him as a person via the fact that his form is the ghost who takes Starr on her Christmas Eve journey. I just wanted a litte more.As with A Christmas Carol, Starr gets to revisit a Christmas past, her present Christmas, and a future Christmas or two. She gets to remember what she once loved and what once made Christmas special to her. She also gets to see Christmas and what her life could be like if she changes or doesn't change.This was a well rounded, complete story. It just had me wanting more than what I got. I'm disappointed that the God-Parents didn't make an appearance, but they could have been "The Powers That Be".One of my favorite quotes from the book is: "Not everything is measured by how much it does or doesn't cost. It's the love we put into things--into each other--that matters the most. That's what Christmas is all about."Overall, it's a good story and fits in very well with the first book in the series.Source: Personal PurchaseReviewed for Read Your Writes Book Reviews blog

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    A Cinderella Christmas Carol - Hope Tarr

    Table of Contents

    Chapter One

    Chapter Two

    Chapter Three

    Chapter Four

    Chapter Five

    Chapter Six

    Acknowledgments

    About the Author

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    This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.

    Copyright © 2012 by Hope Tarr. All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce, distribute, or transmit in any form or by any means. For information regarding subsidiary rights, please contact the Publisher.

    Entangled Publishing, LLC

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    Indulgence is an imprint of Entangled Publishing, LLC.

    Edited by Alycia Tornetta and Stacy Abrams

    Cover design by LJ Anderson

    Cover photography by MaleWitch and PicsFive/Deposit Photos

    ISBN 978-1-62266-818-2

    Manufactured in the United States of America

    First Edition November 2012

    Dear Reader,

    Thank you for supporting a small publisher! Entangled prides itself on bringing you the highest quality romance you’ve come to expect, and we couldn’t do it without your continued support. We love romance, and we hope this book leaves you with a smile on your face and joy in your heart.

    xoxo

    Liz Pelletier, Publisher

    Chapter One

    Christmas Eve, December 24th

    Union Square, Manhattan, New York

    Happy Holidays, Ms. S.

    Standing in her apartment building’s marbled lobby, managing editor of On Top magazine Cynthia Starling—Starr—scowled at her doorman’s grinning face. Even in the midst of pulling a double shift on Christmas Eve, Jimmie was so chock-full of holiday cheer it was almost sickening. Strike the almost—it was sickening.

    He let the glass door fall gently closed behind her, his thin navy uniform scant protection against the raw, gusty evening. Got big plans? His eagle-eyed gaze rested pointedly on the plastic bag of takeout Thai food weighing down her left arm.

    Starr swallowed a groan and settled for a noncommittal shrug. Doormen were notorious gossips, and a nice guy like Jimmie was no exception. She thought wistfully of her former Brooklyn Heights pre-war walkup with its creaking pipes, cracked plasterwork—and patina of privacy. Her current sleek new building boasted an onsite laundry room, gym, and a rooftop deck, not to mention its posh Union Square location, a mere ten-minute subway commute to the On Top offices. Still, at times such as this, she’d gladly sacrifice the luxury and convenience to be able to slip in and out without an audience.

    Jimmie walked over to the kidney-shaped front desk, its glossy maple veneer buried beneath stacks of newly delivered parcels. Before I forget, something came for you this morning.

    Great, she said, glancing down at her already full arms. Another holdup, just what she needed. Would this day—this holiday—never end?

    Jimmie darted behind the desk. Burrowing through the piles, he brought out a medium-size box covered in plain brown packing paper and handed it to her. Hope it’s just what you asked Santa for.

    Santa—oh, puh-lease! Yeah, whatever, it’s probably a work thing, but thanks.

    Her gaze zoned in on the return address, and she snatched it, pulse picking up. Although there was no name, the Washington, D.C., address gave her a pretty good idea of the sender.

    Macie Freakin’ Graham!

    She hadn’t spoken to her former features editor since Macie had gone rogue on her that autumn, falling for the subject of her undercover investigation—famous radio personality Ross Mannon—and quitting not only the story but also the magazine, right in the middle of Starr’s staff meeting, no less. That Mannon had once done his damnedest to take down the magazine was apparently forgiven and forgotten in the hormone rush that Macie’s month-long masquerade as his housekeeper must have released.

    So much for five years of grooming! So much for gratitude! If it hadn’t been for Starr, Macie would still be writing engagement announcements for her hometown newspaper. At the very least, Macie might have given her a heads-up on the whole quitting thing. Still, a part of Starr—the squishy soft part she worked really hard to hide—wasn’t only professionally put out but personally hurt. Over the course of five years of shared Fine Wine Fridays and Sushi Saturdays at On Top, plus the occasional movie and drinks meet-up outside of work, she’d thought she and Macie had become more than just boss and employee, that on some level they were…friends.

    Lesson learned.

    So far she’d refused to reply to the wedding invitation along with Macie’s other overtures—e-mails, texts, and even a few sad-sounding voice messages.

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