In Bed With A Stranger by Mary Wine

As a couple of other reviews said, this book is really formulaic and the villains are tooo cartoony. I mean on the lever of Cinderella's evil step mother and co. I say that, but I also think that the author starting the story from the step-mother's point of view was a mistake because it makes you sympathize with her. I mean, she is the wife and her husband is giving her mistress her jewelry and has her in his bed. This made me seriously dislike the father(kept waiting for him to die at the beginning darn it) and by extension his mistress and her children. It just seemed so wrong that he get's away with cheating on his wife for years and in the end his wife's bitterness kills her and drives her to attempt murder and after she and her daughter dies, he marries his mistress. Ugh. I read just the beginning and the end of the story so I'm sure a lot happened in the middle that I didn't get through because I felt sympathy for the wife and her daughter and could see the way the author was painting her and it just seemed so wrong. Oh, and the daughter of the mistress who is the female protagonist is a Mary Sue. Seriously, she is all that is good and helps other and is beloved and so put upon by the wife. If I wanted to read Cinderella, I would do so.