A Cinderella with a skeleton key. A cowboy who never expected a castle. One engraved slipper.
Ember Oliphant is many things her wicked stepmother doesn't want anyone to notice: a gifted metal engraver, a talented designer, and the only person in the clan who could save Oliphant Engraving's future — if anyone would bother to look. Her plan is simple: one stolen mask, one silver gown, one masquerade ball, and a pair of bronze-heeled shoes beautiful enough to make the new studio manager take her seriously. She just has to get out of her locked room first.
Maxwell DeVille arrived in the Scottish Highlands expecting to run a factory. He did not expect to acquire a father, four siblings, and a ball thrown in his honor — and he absolutely did not expect to spend the whole evening dancing with a red-haired woman in a silver mask who talks about metalwork like poetry and vanishes before he can learn her name. All she leaves behind is a single engraved bronze-heeled slipper.
He is going to find her.
What neither of them knows: the masked beauty who pitched her shoes to the new studio head is the same serving girl Max has been falling for at the inn. And the charming cowboy Ember assumed had simple dreams is actually the man who holds her entire future in his hands. They say Cinderella's prince came looking for her...but in this version, nobody is quite who they appeared to be at the ball.
Fans of fairy tale retellings, steampunk Cinderella aesthetics, and heroes who show up in cowboy boots to a Scottish masquerade will feel right at home.
Cinderella retelling • Masquerade • Secret identity • Workplace romance • Hidden in plain sight • Fish out of water hero • Love at first touch • Found family • Witty banter
Heat Level: Steamy Tone: Lighthearted, Funny, Warm Series Type: Standalone with familial connections Ending: HEA POV: Dual POV, Third Person Content Notes: Innuendo, steamy scenes, empowered heroine, found family themes
Genre: Historical Romance
Ember Oliphant is many things her wicked stepmother doesn't want anyone to notice: a gifted metal engraver, a talented designer, and the only person in the clan who could save Oliphant Engraving's future — if anyone would bother to look. Her plan is simple: one stolen mask, one silver gown, one masquerade ball, and a pair of bronze-heeled shoes beautiful enough to make the new studio manager take her seriously. She just has to get out of her locked room first.
Maxwell DeVille arrived in the Scottish Highlands expecting to run a factory. He did not expect to acquire a father, four siblings, and a ball thrown in his honor — and he absolutely did not expect to spend the whole evening dancing with a red-haired woman in a silver mask who talks about metalwork like poetry and vanishes before he can learn her name. All she leaves behind is a single engraved bronze-heeled slipper.
He is going to find her.
What neither of them knows: the masked beauty who pitched her shoes to the new studio head is the same serving girl Max has been falling for at the inn. And the charming cowboy Ember assumed had simple dreams is actually the man who holds her entire future in his hands. They say Cinderella's prince came looking for her...but in this version, nobody is quite who they appeared to be at the ball.
Fans of fairy tale retellings, steampunk Cinderella aesthetics, and heroes who show up in cowboy boots to a Scottish masquerade will feel right at home.
Cinderella retelling • Masquerade • Secret identity • Workplace romance • Hidden in plain sight • Fish out of water hero • Love at first touch • Found family • Witty banter
Heat Level: Steamy Tone: Lighthearted, Funny, Warm Series Type: Standalone with familial connections Ending: HEA POV: Dual POV, Third Person Content Notes: Innuendo, steamy scenes, empowered heroine, found family themes
Genre: Historical Romance
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