Fairy Godmothers, Inc.

In a world where fairy tale situations are as much a fact of life as death and

taxes, everyone knows hiring Fairy Godmothers, Inc. is the best way to assure

that your beautiful daughter or enchanted frog of a grandson will get the

happily-ever-after he or she deserves. Sure, sometimes a little love potion is

required to make sure those quotas stay up, but what Prince Charming doesn't

know won't hurt him. Kate, an experienced Fairy Godmother, who's enough of a

romantic to frustrate her rigidly rule-bound boss, has just received a

specialty assignment from one of the company's board of directors. Cinderella

\--Rellie for short--was placed with an appropriately wicked stepfamily years

before, and now needs the dress, ball, and handsome prince to complete her

happily-ever-after. The fact that Rellie isn't sure this is her dream come

true--balls are fun, but princes tend to be less interesting than fluffy

bunnies--isn't something management considers a problem. Complicating things a

bit is Jon, the youngest son of the royal family, who meets Kate, and is

smitten, but isn't quite ready yet to reveal his true identity. After all,

it's his older brother Rupert who's supposed to marry Rellie, which means

pretending to be a lowly civil servant will give him the chance to spend more

time with Kate. (As long as he can get the ball arranged, and stop Rupert from

getting himself into trouble over his "self-actualization" business, he should

have the perfect opportunity to explain everything and get started on making a

little magic with the Fairy Godmother of his dreams.) But, of course, things

never ever happen as planned.