title: The Official Princess Handbook: A Little Girl's Guide to Beauty, Poise, and Righteousness
author: Lisa Harris
description: Lisa Harris is an author, motivational speaker, a former pageant contestant, etiquette instructor, business owner, wife, and mother of three. She is a graduate of Bauder Fashion College and holds a degree in Fashion Merchandising. Lisa has more than twenty-five years of experience in the fashion, modeling, and pageantry fields. She has been teaching etiquette, personal development skills, and coaching girls for pageants and modeling for the past ten years. Lisa competed in her first pageant at the age of twelve and has stayed active as a pageant contestant even as a Mrs. Competing in over 100 pageants and winning over fifty titles - such as Mrs. Ok Globe 2005, Mrs. Ok America Muskogee County 2008, Miss Ft. Gibson Teen USA 1986, Miss Ok North American Teen 1988, as well as Miss Sooner State in 1985. She has also won numerous prestigious awards such as the $15K smile makeover from Mrs. Globe, FFA State Farmer Degree, and Most Petite Model from Bauder Fashion College.
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  ![Of Curses and Kisses by Sandhya Menon, Simon Pulse](../images/title.jpg)
  
  
  
  
  
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  _For the cursed and the brave who refuse to bow to the stars_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  >
  
  
  He fell into despair,
  
  
  and lost all hope.
  
  
  For who could ever learn
  
  
  to love a beast?
  
  
  -Beauty and the Beast
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # CHAPTER 1
  
  
  Just outside Aspen, Colorado, nestled between the sentinel mountains and an
  inkblot lake, lies St. Rosetta’s International Academy. Its sweeping spires,
  creeping ivy, and timeworn brick turrets often lead visitors to remark that it
  looks like a venerable castle from an old European city. The Academy would be
  Princess Jaya Rao’s home for the next year.
  
  
  While she was there, Jaya had one mission: break an English nobleman’s heart.
  
  
  But first she had to fall in love with him.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # CHAPTER 2
  
  
  ## Jaya
  
  
  Being a princess wasn’t as glamorous as the media might have you believe. If
  the courtiers introduced her, say, in this fashion: “Her Ro