Love swept 360 once upon a time(the glass shoe)By:KAY HOOPER

Chapter 1

     "This is the most absurd idea either of you has had. Ever ." The only reason the statemant wasnt wailed was that Amanda Wilderman hadn't been heard to wail since her infant days, some twenty odd years before.

     "It's an excellent idea," Amanda's seventeen-year-old cousin Samantha countered,"if only to get you out of your jeans and off your horses. Dammit, Manda, put your foot in!"

      Amanda obeyed, but when she stepped into the other shoe and looked down at what was adorning her small, narrow feet, she really came close again to wailing. "You're out of your minds!"

     Her other cousin,sixteen-year-old Leslie, giggled as she stood back, observing the effect of the costume Amanda wore. "This is going to be great!"

     "It won't work," Amanda said, her voice taut as steel. "I've seen the guest list for this damned masquerade, and I know for a fact there are atleast fifty woman attending who can and no doubt will, knock the socks off even so jaded a man as Mr. Ryder Duncan Foxx. So what makes you think I'm going to bowl him over?"

    Samantha and Leslie exchanged glances, and the former said dryly,"dont tell her; it'll only make her head swell. Amanda gave both of her cousins a disgusted look. "Funny. "That's funny."

    "Look, Manda,"Sam said gravely but with a twinkle lurking in her eye,"you gave your word, remember? Any favor short of breaking the law, which this isn't. We've been collecting IOUs from you since last Christmas,and tonight's your night to pay up-in full."

      If Amanda gnashed her teeth, at least it wasn't audible. "I should have known you two were up to something when you taught me to play poker. Why can't I just pay up in cash like any normal person?"                                 "Because we play for favors. You agreed."     "I agreed to too damned many things, it seems." Amanda frowned suddenly. "I have an awful hollow feeling in the pit of my stomach. Have you two been planning this for six months? No...not even you_"

     "Guilty." Leslie grinned. "Thats when the masquerade was announced."