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Do you want a lighthearted novel that just makes you feel GREAT? I know I do! Recently, I have been reading a lot of fiction that is more literary in quality. Sometimes you just want a good happy novel so here is one that fits the bill.

Go check out Sarah Strohmeyer’s Cinderella Pact. From Sarah’s website,.

NOLA DEVLIN HAS A SECRET IDENTITY.
By day she is an overweight, frumpy, and overlooked editor at Sass! (the “celebrity magazine with an edge!”), but by night she slips behind her keyboard and into her alter-ego: Belinda Apple. Belinda is thin, gorgeous, British and the author of a trendy advice column— she is, in effect, the latest Carrie Bradshaw. Not even her two best friends or her self-absorbed sister (who worships Belinda as the “sister she never had”) know her secret.

When “Belinda” jots off a column about how easy it is to lose weight, Nola is shocked when her best friends take her own lies to heart and urge her to follow Belinda’s weight loss program. Since Nola can’t reveal herself as the real Belinda Apple, she bites the bullet and joins her friends in making the “Cinderella Pact” — a last ditch attempt to lose weight (again!) and transform their lives for good.

But as the pounds come off, things don’t turn out the way the three friends expect. Their journey of self-discovery leads to the rediscovery of an old love and the unmasking of new problems. Meanwhile, Nola finds herself torn between two different men as she stomps out fires caused by her deception as Belinda Apple and falls in love with the man who just might be her prince — or the rat in coachman’s clothing.

It is a great fun fabulous book. I like happy people, or at least people who have GOOD things happen to them. This is the perfect book. Nola has to work to figure out what is real, what is fake, and what is worthwhile, and it is a great ride to take. It is available in paperback at your local independent bookshop. At my shop, look for it on the Staff pick shelf!

Tags: chick lit, cinderella, cinderella pact, fiction, light fiction, nola devlin, sarah strohmeyer, strohmeyer, weight loss

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