The Glass Slipper Cobbler
A Cinderella Retelling

About this book:

Master Kenneth Vane doesn't believe in magic—he believes in thermal stress, structural integrity, and the exact moment molten silica must hit oil instead of water. As Oakhaven's premier glass cobbler, he builds footwear that survives staircases and ballrooms, not fairy tales. So when the Royal Seneschal arrives with a king's ransom and an impossible deadline—two flawless crystal slippers for a mysterious maiden at the Grand Ball—Kenneth sees only a nightmare of engineering: a plaster cast with a dangerously tilted heel, three days to invent a new glass formula, and a Fairy Godmother's Guild whose last enchantment dissolved into pumpkin pulp mid-waltz.

But the cast reveals a woman who walks like a ghost and carries weight like a dancer, and the more Kenneth studies those perfect arches, the more he suspects the palace's "transcendent" spectacle hides a fracture in the spell itself. With an apprentice who questions every decision, a seneschal who smells of curdled milk, and a guild of charlatans waiting to ruin his metallurgy with fickle enchantments, Kenneth must forge something that shouldn't exist: a shoe of pure science strong enough to hold a miracle together.

*The Glass Slipper Cobbler* reimagines the classic tale through the eyes of the man who built the legend—one precise, sweat-soaked, brilliantly calculated step at a time.