What if Cinderella never tried on the glass slipper?Cinderella’s night at the ball is better than she imagined: she encounters wondrous mysterious magic from another time; she escapes the tyranny of her stepmother Lady Tremaine for a few blissful hours; and she meets a charming stranger with whom she shares an instant connection. The next day Cinderella learns that the Grand Duke is searching for a mysterious princess who left behind a glass slipper and she dares to hope for a better future. That is until Lady Tremaine intervenes. Unable to prove that she’s the missing “princess” and unable to bear life under Lady Tremaine any longer Cinderella attempts a fresh start looking for work at the palace as a seamstress. But when the Grand Duke appoints her to serve under the king’s visiting sister Cinderella becomes witness to a grand conspiracy to take the king—and the prince—out of power as well as a longstanding prejudice against fairies including Cinderella’s own fairy godmother. Faced with questions of love and loyalty to the kingdom Cinderella must find a way to stop the villains of past and present . . . beforeit’s too late.