Found
Ron Vitale
language
(, March 10, 2014)
What really happened to Cinderella after she married the prince? Did she truly live "happy ever after"?The highly anticipated third book in Ron Vitale’s Cinderella’s Secret Witch Diaries series, Found will enchant readers who love a Cinderella retelling and fairy tales. Found is a great match for readers who have followed Cinderella’s journey since it began in Lost and is a page turner for fans who enjoyed Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy. For two years, Cinderella has searched for her long lost enemy, the Silver Fox, in a desperate attempt to regain her powerful witch magic and to convince him to help her find her daughter and defeat Napoleon. With time running out as only Russia remains strong against Napoleon’s grand army, Cinderella will sacrifice all she knows to find her daughter, but will she lose herself in the process? Find out if Cinderella does find her true love in Found, the dark and adventure filled third book in the Cinderella’s Secret Witch Diaries series!Interview with the author from Digital Book Today:Ron Vitale turns the fairy tale on its head with a dark and twisted look into the private life of Cinderella and her struggle to find happily ever after in a world of magic and politics. Drawing rave reviews for its creepy and original imagining of the Cinderella fairy tale, Lost: Cinderella’s Secret Witch Diaries, and its sequels, Stolen and Found, are available in print and ebook through Amazon.Question: What inspired you to write the first book in the series (Lost: Cinderella’s Secret Witch Diaries)?Answer: My young daughter. Four years ago, my daughter was nearly three years old and she was infatuated with Princesses and anything pink. While reading to her one night, a question popped into my head: What really happens after the happily ever after? I started to think on that and then realized that I had an idea I could really sink my teeth into. After Cinderella marries the Prince, the story ends, but I wanted to go beyond that and show Cinderella’s struggle after she was married. I just used my imagination and let it run wild and my readers have really connected with what I’ve come up with in my series.Question: What’s the series about?Answer: It's about Cinderella’s coming to terms with her identity. All her life she’s been forced to do what she’s been told and it’s taken a toll on her. Now she’s at a point in her young life in which she has to decide where she really wants to go in life and who to be. If I could boil my book down to one phrase, it’s simply that women do not have to wait to be rescued by men. Women can rescue themselves. There’s no need to wait for a man to save them.Question: Tell us a little about your main character.Answer: Cinderella is young and still innocent. She’s married to the Prince but is still trying to find her voice and identity. Now a member of the royal court of England in the late 1700s, Cinderella has tremendous pressures on her to perform and carry the heir to the throne. She’s She’s timid, unsure of herself, and searching for a friend to help her find her way.All along Cinderella looks to others to save her, but slowly she realizes that her Fairy Godmother cannot always be at her side. She needs to find other sources of support to help her deal with tremendous challenges before she loses her way. She desperately searches to find the magic that once saved her from her stepmother and hopes that she can once again be saved. But in her innocence, she stumbles upon a secret that turns her life upside down and causes her to question all that she knows.