Cinderella Texas — Molly Bull

Cinderella Texas is the retelling of a famous fairy tale complete with a shoe problem for the lovely heroine, twenty-two year old Alyson Spencer, and a cowboy who is prince-like for a hero, Robert Lee Greene IV -- called Quatro. Quatro is a handsome rancher, an oil baron and one of the riches men in Texas, and he is also a widower with two school age children. How could Alyson have guessed that when she couldn't find a teaching job in Dallas, she would eventually accept a position home schooling Quatro's children and be paid a tremendous salary for doing it?
Alyson likes historical novels, antique furniture and city life and never cared for rural settings. However, she expects life on the huge Greene Ranch in South Texas to be idyllic. She will be living in Quatro's home along with his children, his parents and his grandfather, and she visualizes a majestic mansion surrounded by well-tended gardens -- a swimming pool, a tennis court, perhaps a private movie theater and servants at her beckon call.
What she actually finds causes her to want to fly back to Dallas, immediately. Quatro and his family believe that modern technology corrupts, meaning that the rundown two hundred year old house they live in is without electricity and all other necessities of normal American life. Alyson tries to get out of her teaching contract, but it is unbreakable. How is she expected to do her job as a schoolteacher without a computer and a working telephone? And why is Quatro so pig-headed?
It was more likely that an attraction would develop between a country coyote and a city poodle than Alyson Spencer and Quatro Greene, and yet somehow it does.


Molly Noble Bull is a multi-published author. Her long historical novel, Sanctuary, won the 2008 Gayle Wilson award and tied for first place in the 2008 Winter Rose Contest, both for published authors in the inspirational category.
Molly is married, the mother of three grown sons, and a grandmother, and she was born in Kingsville, Texas, home of the famous King Ranch. Her father and maternal grandfather were real Texas cowboys and managed the Santa Rosa, a sixty thousand acre cattle ranch where Molly spent part of her growing up years.
If anybody knows about Texas, cowboys and ranches -- first hand, it's Molly. All three of her grown sons are involved in ranching in Texas today.