This is a short read. If you  have a tight schedule and about half an hour to kill, One Glass Slipper would be a good modern fairy tale to snuggle up with.

 

Cathy Sullivan, who is raising her orphaned niece, works as a personal shopper at Brandenburgs,  a hoity-toity department store in Chicago. On the way to meet what will become the most important client she could ever get, she has a mishap on the escalator. Marc (the heir to the Brandenburg empire, but working incognito in the shoe department) comes to her rescue. The pair begin a relationship which, even though this is a short read, could have been more developed.

 

The couple face opposition from Marc's father who tries to blackmail Cathy into not accepting Marc's proposal of marriage. Good thing there's a spunky grandmother in the picture who makes sure Cathy comes to a Brandenburg party held in Marc's honor.

 

As I said, the romance could have been rounded out a bit more with just a few more paragraphs. Other than that, readers get exactly what a romance/fairy tale is supposed to deliver, the happily ever after.