The Charming Way (5 page)

After a while, Charming showed up beside
her with cloth bags covered in logos. As people shoved books at her, he took
them and put them in the bags.

“Study materials,” he said to her very
softly.

“They give this stuff away?” she asked.

“Only to people they consider
influential,” he said. “Like me.”

“So they know you’re a Charming?” she
asked.

He waved the badge at her. “I’m a
bookseller. We’re more important than any prince.”

She tilted her head at him. “I really
don’t understand this place.”

“I know,” he said. “Why don’t you let me
show it to you?”

He slung the book bags over his shoulder
and tucked her hand in the crook of his arm. Together they walked through the
exhibition hall. She saw vampires, vampires, and more vampires, followed by
werewolves and even a few zombies as romantic leads, no matter how fictitious
they were.

And she saw people talking about books
and arguing about them. Occasionally Charming would join them. He didn’t seem
like a prince. More like a really nice man.

A man who didn’t believe in happily ever
after.

But then again, neither did she.

Although she did like learning a thing or
two.

And he had a lot to teach her about the
Greater World. And books. And transforming wicked stepmothers into romantic
heroines.

Sexy heroines.

Women who deserved their own princes
charming, even if those princes were a little older, a little balder, and a
whole lot nerdier than expected.

“The
Charming Way” by Kristine Grayson was first published in 2010 by WMG Publishing

About the Author

Called “The Reigning Queen of Paranormal
Romance” by Best Reviews, Kristine Grayson has made a name for herself
publishing light, slightly off-skew romance novels about Greek Gods, fairy tale
characters, and the modern world. Her novel
Utterly
Charming
, won the
Romantic Times
Reviewer’s Choice Award. Her novel
Wickedly
Charming
, which appeared in May of 2011, is based on “The Charming Way.”

If you liked “The Charming Way,” you
might like these works by Kristine Grayson.

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Blue

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Geek
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Simply
Irresistible

Totally
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Utterly
Charming

Wickedly
Charming

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