num_pages: 163
description: From Amazon best-selling author, Celena Janton, comes a fairy tale retelling unlike any you have read before.♥I heard her wishing upon a star. I shouldn’t have been there.She had come to us that night, a beggar woman. Her hands dirty, her face weary, she came in search of bread and a good night’s sleep. My mother asked me to share my bed, and being the dutiful daughter I was, I didn’t argue.Sleep eluded me that night as I lay unmoving, lest her dirty feet touch me or lice from her hair jump into mine. When I heard her rise in the middle of the night, I followed.As I watched her gaze up at the sky to make a wish upon a falling star, I could never have imagined that my life was about to change forever. With her cackling voice, she wished for a handsome prince to come and find her.Her words carried across to me on the edge of the wind.And I laughed.When my laughter fell upon her ears, she turned to meet my eyes.The very stars from the heavens seemed to fall and glow around her until she was no longer a beggar woman but a beautiful enchantress, more lovely than any painting of a goddess I had ever seen.“You laugh today, Sarina,” she said to me, “and yet soon, your mockery will turn to fulfillment even as your joy turns to weeping.”She was gone as quickly as her last word, and I stood wondering if she had left me with a blessing or a curse.I still wonder.Since that night, I am a different person. I wish upon candles and dandelion seeds and falling stars. I believe in fairy tale love, the truly madly deeply kind.And I find it.Again and again.Endlessly. Painfully. Hopefully.
language: English
title: Once Upon a Wish: A Fairy Tale Retelling