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    Much Ado About Something: Fabulous Fairy Tales, #1.5
    Much Ado About Something: Fabulous Fairy Tales, #1.5
    Much Ado About Something: Fabulous Fairy Tales, #1.5
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    Much Ado About Something: Fabulous Fairy Tales, #1.5

    By Bethany M. Sefchick

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    In charge of running the fairy kingdom while her brother and his wife are on an extended vacation, Marissa Wexford, Princess of the Fairies, is having a little trouble balancing the royal household's budgets.  The upcoming Midsummer Ball is a big deal, and she doesn't want to screw it up.  Then again, if her brother wasn't such a lousy bookkeeper, she might be able to figure out what she can and can't afford in the way of additional decorations for the party  After all, she's trying to be a fiscally responsible monarch.  Now if only she could stop dreaming about her brother's best friend, Brutus, things might be a little easier.

    Brutus Linnington has been best friends with both Julian and Marissa for as long as he can remember.  Except that now, he feels far more than friendship for Marissa, only he's not certain she returns those feelings.  After all, she's referred to him as her brother for years.  Why would anything make her see him differently now?  Then, one night, he catches Marissa in a weak moment, when her defenses are down, and her wings are exposed.  Can he make her see that there's more to their relationship than just friendship?  Or is he doomed to live with a one-sided attraction for the rest of his life?

    This 11,200-word short story is written in the modern, adult romance style for a much hotter read.  It may not be appropriate for younger audiences.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBethany M. Sefchick
    Release dateJun 21, 2017
    ISBN9781540185686
    Much Ado About Something: Fabulous Fairy Tales, #1.5
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    Bethany M. Sefchick

    Making her home in the mountains of central Pennsylvania, Bethany Sefchick lives with her husband, Ed, and a plethora of Betta fish that she’s constantly finding new ways to entertain. In addition to writing, Bethany owns a jewelry company, Easily Distracted Designs. It should be noted that the owner of the titular Selon Park - one Lord Nicholas Rosemont, the Duke of Candlewood, a.k.a. "The Bloody Duke" - first appeared in her mind when she was eighteen years old and had no idea what to make of him, or of his slightly snarky smile.  She has been attempting to dislodge him ever since - with absolutely no success. When not penning romance novels or creating sparkly treasures, she enjoys cooking, scrapbooking, and lavishing attention on any stray cats who happen to be hanging around. She always enjoys hearing from her fans at: [email protected]

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      Much Ado About Something - Bethany M. Sefchick

      Much Ado About Something

      A Fabulous Fairy Tales short story companion to

      A Midsummer Night's Delusion 

      By Bethany M. Sefchick

      This book is a work of fiction.  Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real.  Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      Copyright © 2017 

      Second Edition

      Bethany M. Sefchick

      First Edition Copyright © 2013

      All rights reserved

      For those who have perchance to dream...

      Chapter One

      Marissa Wexford sat at her desk and drummed her fingers on the side of her laptop, a spreadsheet of palace expenditures open on the screen.  Being a fairy princess, she decided, wasn't all it was cracked up to be.  It was even less enjoyable when she was left to run the kingdom while her brother Julian - otherwise known as Oberon, the King of the Fairies - and his wife took an extended vacation to the Turks and Caicos Islands for a few weeks.  Not that she begrudged either of them anything, especially after all they'd done for her over the last year.  They'd both helped turn what could have been a truly awful time in her life into something good and positive, and she was thankful for it.

      Still, she did wish they'd left her a little more help, maybe even one protocol fairy or two.  Oh, the palace staff was wonderful, as always, anticipating her every need, but as far as decision making and royal protocols went, she was pretty much on her own.  That was especially bothersome because she had a major political event looming on the horizon, one that could well define her entire future as a monarch.  Marissa was terrified that she might accidentally make a mistake and offend a foreign dignitary or high-ranking fairy in her brother's absence, particularly at the Midsummer Ball in two days.

      Normally, Julian held court at the ball, but this year, he'd wanted Marissa to do the honors.  He'd informed her just the other week that she needed to learn to handle large-scale events like this on her own, as he might not always be around to preside over them.  Not that he was planning to go anywhere, of course.  The only way Julian would relinquish the title of Oberon was when he died, which, if the traditional Wexford family longevity held out, would thankfully not be for another six or seven hundred years.  However, Julian did want to start a family, and he wanted to be a better father than their own had been.

      To that end, he recognized that some day, such as when his first child was born, he would need a temporary replacement to fill his role as Monarch of the Fairy Kingdom, at least for a short while.  A replacement, he'd told Marissa, who would preferably not be his wife, since she, too, would be otherwise occupied.  His sister, on the other hand, he'd said with that familiar smile that meant he was planning something, would do nicely.

      Julian had been trained since birth to rule the kingdom, not Marissa, but things were changing now.  One of those changes, however, was a very big and slightly controversial deal.  The Fairy High Council, at Julian's urging, had granted Marissa some power to make royal decisions, a move that wasn't sitting well with many older fairies who preferred the traditional ways.  Julian, however, had insisted, and had begun allowing his sister to make kingdom-affecting decisions here and there.  Small ones at

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