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Dreams Do Come True - cover

Dreams Do Come True

Barbara Cartland

Publisher: Barbara Cartland

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Summary

A shy English Rose blossoms into an exotic bird of paradise in this thrillingly romantic twist on the tale of Cinderella. 
With her slender, graceful, almost elfin beauty, Odetta may not look like a Cinderella but it's she who must stay at home while her aristocratic friend is dressed by the great couturiers and dances at Society balls. 
That is, until she's whisked to Paris as her friend's lady's maid – and, on a crazy impulse, borrows a fabulous dress and a mask and slips unnoticed into a Venetian Masked Ball. As she's marvelling at the whirling waltzes, Chinese lanterns and glamorously costumed guests, a tall, handsome masked and cloaked man asks, 'Are you waiting for some laggard partner or have you just dropped down from the sky to bemuse us poor mortals?'
Cinderella has gone to the ball! No longer 'Miss Nobody from Nowhere', she lives the dream, playing the part of a French Princesse and quickly finding her feet in the fashionable world… But just as quickly she loses her heart  to her masked hero – and her impossible dream becomes a nightmare because her new life and love is all a lie.
Available since: 08/08/2022.
Print length: 298 pages.

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