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1. I have a bachelor’s degree in Zoology because I wanted to be a zookeeper—which I never did—but my education did help me a great deal in my job as an aquatic biologist and permitting specialist at Walt Disney World.
2. I have six brothers and sisters, and I’m not the oldest. 😊 Three are biological and three are adopted, each at two days old, came home from the hospital to us.
3. I can play the piano. I just don’t. We sold our piano 20 years ago, but it’s an ability like riding a bike—once you learn, you can still play. With some practice. 😊
4. My favorite exercise in the world is riding my electric bike, usually 9-10 miles per day, but at least 5 miles.
5. I can play the harmonica, all of 2 songs, but since one is Happy Birthday, I do it frequently when I call siblings, nieces, nephews, or friends for their birthday. It’s better than my singing.
6. My grandpa, uncle, father, brother, and brother-in-law were all Lutheran ministers, which makes me a preacher’s kid. And yes, I know what they say about preachers’ kids. . . we learned all our bad habits from the deacon’s kids.
7. I met my husband at Disney. His office was across the street from the lab where I worked at the time and had the only Coke machine for two miles. I was a Coke-a-holic at the time and drank 2+ quarts of pop a day (yes you read that right, two). So I had plenty of reasons to run into him, and the rest as they say is history.
8. I write my stories in longhand and shorthand, mostly shorthand, then type them and edit as I go.
9. My one famous-person meet: I rode an elevator with Patrick Ewing of the New York Knicks. Just us. We did visit and he was the nicest guy ever. When he shook my hand, his fingers went halfway up my forearm his hand was so big.
10. I’ve ridden Small World over 475 times. Yes, you read that right too. I started out at Disney as a Tour Guide in the Magic Kingdom and Small World was on our tour.
The Cinderella Romances…Fall in love with the fairy tale all over again.
Modern-day Cinderella stories that provide unlimited opportunities to retell the classic fairy tale, happily with returning characters to share in these adventures.
Cinderella Busted
Once upon a time, in Jupiter Island, Florida . . .
Billionaire developer, Rhett Buchanan, is forced to inspect a shipment of priceless trees and meets the girl of his dreams instead. A bit jaded where women are concerned—since most are gold diggers—Rhett falls head over heels for the Jupiter Island socialite who only wants him, not his money. Except she isn’t the glamorous socialite she appears to be.
She’s the gardener . . .
Betting on Cinderella
Once upon a time in Biloxi, Mississippi . . .
Garrett Tucker inherits his grandfather’s casino empire and steps into the reclusive billionaire’s shoes as the new “Prince of Vegas.” Discovering embezzlement in his newly purchased casino in Biloxi, Garrett goes in undercover. His prime suspect? The new finance supervisor . . . a feisty brunette who stole his heart at first sight.
Andi Ryan moves to Biloxi to care for her godmother. Taking a job as finance supervisor for the renovated Bayou Princess casino, she discovers someone is skimming from the till. Andi starts her own investigation, worried she will be blamed for the theft when the handsome new owner discovers her godmother likes to gamble.
Industrial espionage is afoot at the Bayou Princess, and Garrett and Andi are soon forced to work as a team to prove her innocence and save the casino before it’s too late.
This swoonworthy modern-day fairy tale joins the other stories in the Cinderella Romances series. Each provides a new opportunity to retell the classic fairy tale, happily with returning characters to share in these adventures.
Par for Cinderella
Once upon a time in Cedar Key, Florida . . .
Golf resort developer Aidan Cross is at loose ends. Something feels missing from his life, but that something isn’t women. He has too many women chasing him now. To confuse things even more, his yacht breaks down off-shore of his next project site in Florida, and Aidan falls for his only competition in the small town—a woman who wants nothing to do with him or his rakish charm.
Casey Stuart is stuck living in Cypress Key, unwilling to abandon her uncle or the golf course they manage together. She doesn’t quite trust the stranger Aidan who shows up in town looking for work, and she vows to steer clear of him and the danger their intense chemistry provokes. Aidan’s stay is temporary, and falling for him promises only heartbreak.
But Casey needs Aidan’s help when she discovers Cypress Key’s mayor is making underhanded business deals, and she ends up on the wrong side of the powerful crook. Aidan steps in to rescue her, but secrets from his past threaten to bogey their new-found affair.
This swoonworthy modern-day fairy tale joins the other Cinderella stories in the series. Each provides a new opportunity to retell the classic fairy tale, happily with returning characters to share in these adventures.
Enjoy an Excerpt from Book One: Cinderella Busted
“Do you buy a lot of plants here?” Buchanan suddenly asked.
Her head snapped up from examining a bent gray frond. She swallowed. “Buy?”
“You must be one of the nursery’s best customers as well as you know the stock and know your way around here.” He gave her that slow, sexy smile again. “Are you buying landscaping for business or pleasure?”
Oh good grief! He thinks I’m a customer.
But why wouldn’t he? Today, she was dressed like one. Surely, he could tell from their conversation she worked here at the nursery.
Or not.
He waited for a response. So that was why he had asked her to help him! She grinned. She couldn’t help it. She felt like Cinderella masquerading as a princess at the ball. Maybe she could just avoid answering his question altogether.
She guided him to the end of the aisle, made the turn to the fifth row of trees, and aimed their steps toward a cluster of Monterrey pines.
Buchanan put a hand out to stop her. “I hope you’ll let me take you to dinner to thank you for helping me, Lily.”
About the Author: 
Petie spent a large part of her career working at Walt Disney World—”The Most Magical Place on Earth”—where she enjoyed working in the land of fairy tales by day and creating her own romantic fairy tales by night, including her new series, The Cinderella Romances. She eventually said good-bye to her “day” job to write her stories full-time. These days Petie spends her time writing sequels to her regency time-travel series, Lords in Time, and her cozy-mystery-with-romantic-suspense series, the Mystery Angel Romances.
Petie shares her home on the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee with her horticulturist husband and an opinionated Nanday conure named Sassy who made a cameo appearance in No Angels for Christmas.
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I enjoyed reading your list. Thanks for sharing the book.
This should be a very enjoyable read. Thanks for hosting.
So glad you stopped by. Hope you win a giveaway.
Sounds like a good book.
Thanks! I hope you’ll give it a try!
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