The Silver Slipper

Violet Kingsley is invisible. Reduced to little more than a servant in her stepmother's home, she spends her days mending her stepsister's gowns, managing household accounts no one thanks her for, and nursing the limp from an injury she tries never to think about. She has no fortune, no prospects, and no hope of escape.

Until a mysterious benefactor offers her one impossible gift: a single night of freedom at the Duke of Elsberth's masquerade ball.

Sebastian Ashworth, Duke of Elsberth, has spent years fending off fortune hunters and society matchmakers. He expects nothing from the evening but tedium—until he encounters a grey-eyed woman in a silver mask who makes him laugh for the first time in years. She's clever and kind, and when she melts into his arms for a single waltz, he knows he's found something rare.

But when the clock strikes midnight, his mysterious lady flees into the darkness, leaving behind only a silver slipper—and the name of her stepsister.

Now Sebastian has come courting Miss Harcourt. The only problem? The beautiful, vapid Rosalind is nothing like the woman who stole his heart. And the more time he spends at Briarwood House, the more he notices the quiet girl with the haunted eyes who limps through shadows, desperate not to be seen.

The Silver Slipper is a Cinderella retelling about being truly seen, the courage it takes to step into the light, and discovering that sometimes the glass slipper fits the girl no one was looking for.