Autumn grew up in rural Montana where options were limited and ambition was not welcome. She made herself a promise: she would leave and she would matter.  

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Fast forward years later, Dr. Autumn Ray is a burnt out ER physician who heads to a bar for a quiet dinner. There she meets Stefano, an Italian paleontologist who looks more rockstar than professor. He is disarming and kind and, it turns out, very wealthy.

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Autumn is swept into a fairytale of sparkling jewelry, vacation homes, exclusive parties, and luxury shopping. It’s a real life Cinderella story, if Cinderella was middle aged with a mortgage and a deeply ingrained suspicion of anything that looked too much like dependence.

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She worked hard to become the strong, independent woman she is to risk becoming someone’s cliché. Is it possible to have it all? Intimacy and independence? The life you built and the one you never dared imagine? 

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This is the story of what happens after the fairy tale. it is for anyone who has ever tried to do the impossible: To become more without losing who they already are.