Faking Cinderella
Small Town Sisterhood • Book 3
by Pippa Grant
Why You'll Love This
A blackmail scheme, a homemade booby trap, and a grumpy bodyguard who never stood a chance — this one earns its chaos.
- Great if you want: enemies-to-lovers with real comedic stakes and emotional depth
- The experience: fast, fizzy, and warm — the kind you finish in one sitting
- The writing: Grant's banter crackles; her humor lands without undercutting the heart
- Skip if: slapstick setup humor isn't your entry point into romance
About This Book
What happens when an heiress goes undercover as a housekeeper to secretly meet the half-brothers she never knew existed — only to find herself sharing a cabin with a grumpy, suspicious former bodyguard who figures out exactly who she is? Pippa Grant's Faking Cinderella takes a deliciously chaotic setup and layers it with genuine emotional weight. Beneath the mistaken identities and accidental blackmail is a story about belonging, chosen family, and two people who are both hiding more than they want to admit. The stakes feel real even when the situations feel wonderfully absurd.
Grant writes romantic comedy with a particular kind of confidence — her pacing is relentless in the best way, her banter crackles without ever feeling staged, and she has a rare gift for sneaking emotional gut-punches into chapters that started as pure chaos. The third entry in the Small Town Sisterhood series works beautifully as a standalone while rewarding readers who've followed the world from the beginning. At 415 pages, it earns every one of them, balancing laugh-out-loud moments with the kind of slow-burn tenderness that makes the payoff genuinely satisfying.