The handsome prince took the glass slipper off the silk pillow and placed it on her delicate foot. He gently slipped her foot into the shoe and…

"Hold on…it seems to be stuck on something…" the prince muttered.

"That's my toe," I replied blankly.

"Um…this is awkward," The Prince sighs.

"Let me guess; I'm not the one for you," I respond in despair.

"It's not you… It's me," the prince suggests as he carefully removes the shoe from my foot and places it back on the pillow.

Is this what your life seems like? Maybe you have spent your entire life searching for your happy ending, only to have everything come crashing down around you. One day you wake up and discover you are not Cinderella, but instead the ugly stepsister.

That is just how I felt. I had lost my marriage of 21 years. I was in my late 40s and facing life alone for the first time. Everywhere I looked, I saw happy couples living their best life, and I wondered, why me? Why was I the one who lost it all? Why had my life turned out this way? Why didn't the shoe fit?

Join me, throughout this book, on my quest for answers. No matter what your past may have handed you–the struggles you have gone through–you can embrace who you are and find your happy ending! You, too, will begin to embrace your inner ugly stepsister!