One of PEOPLE Magazine's Best Books of Summer! I absolutely adored this funny fierce
big-hearted book. Morgan Matson New York Times bestselling author of Save the DateCelebrated
author Sarah Kuhn reinvents the modern fairy tale in this intensely personal yet hilarious
novel of a girl whose search for a storybook ending takes her to unexpected places in both her
beloved LA neighborhood and her own guarded heart.If Rika's life seems like the beginning of a
familiar fairy tale being an orphan with two bossy cousins and working away in her aunts'
business she would be the first to reject that foolish notion. After all she loves her family
(even if her cousins were named after Disney characters) and with her biracial background
amazing judo skills and red-hot temper she doesn't quite fit the princess mold.All that
changes the instant she locks eyes with Grace Kimura America's reigning rom-com sweetheart
during the Nikkei Week Festival. From there Rika embarks on a madcap adventure of hope and
happiness searching for clues that Grace is her long-lost mother exploring Little Tokyo's
hidden treasures with cute actor Hank Chen and maybe . . . finally finding a sense of
belonging.But fairy tales are fiction and the real world isn't so kind. Rika knows she's
setting herself up for disappointment because happy endings don't happen to girls like her.
Should she walk away before she gets in even deeper or let herself be swept away?
