He refuses to quit his job and go elsewhere.

He doesn’t make enough to do anything else. He is reduced to living in a tiny run down studio apartment above 125 th Street in Manhattan, a questionable neighborhood at best. They’ve stolen his designs, they treated him like crap, and they’ve made his life hell. The former business partner and his two troglodyte sons have lorded it over Trick ever since. His father’s business partner took over their architectural design firm when Trick’s father died, without a will and leaving Trick nothing. Trick Grigsby is the Cinderella character in this story. It was a fun read, and I honestly didn’t put it down once. These two ladies took the age-old story, and rethought it…complete with a gay Fairy Godfather.

I can’t even tell you how much I enjoyed this cute modern retelling of the Cinderella story. Edwin falls for Trick, but with everything standing in their way, a fairy-tale ending might remain nothing more than a dream. When he meets Trick, Edwin knows he’s found a worthy charge, and he’s sure he can help Trick achieve all of his heart’s desires. Trick’s days are filled with drudgery and cruel remarks from the man who was supposed to be his mentor-along with his two sons, whose only jobs seem to be making Trick’s life miserable.Įdwin Goodmaker struggled through his fairy godparent curriculum, but his mother-the reigning Fairy Queen-has a simple solution: Edwin will go to New York City and get some practical experience.

Unfortunately, the company’s new owner barely resembles the man who was once Trick’s father’s best friend. Following in his father’s footsteps as a talented architect, he hopes to work his way up at the firm. smuff) into a gooey ball of HEA and fuzzies.Since the death of his father, Trick Grigsby has fought to keep his head above water. Her favorite stories are those that marry smut and fluff (a.k.a. An overall feline enthusiast, Nico secretly (or not so secretly?) adores Hello Kitty, cat GIFs, spontaneous traveling, pretending to be crafty, emoticons, hot menfolk, and parenthetical statements (not necessarily in that order).

She thinks reading is awesome and loves that she can hang out night after night with crinoline-wearing debutantes, brawny firemen in suspenders, and werewolf shifters with Scottish brogues. Nico Jaye is a fan of all things HEA and has dragged her romance collection along for her moves from San Francisco to Los Angeles to Chicago to New York and back.

Dream Lover by Nico Jaye