title: Midnight Sisters: A Retelling of the Twelve Dancing Princesses
author:  Sarah E. Boucher 
description: Sarah E. Boucher is a lover of fairy stories, romance, anything BBC and Marvel, and really, really cute shoes. On weekdays she wears respectable shoes and serves as Miss Boucher, the Queen of Kindergarten. On school holidays she writes stories about romance and adventure. And wears impractical super cute shoes. Sarah is a graduate of Brigham Young University. She lives and works in northern Utah. Midnight Sisters is her second novel.
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   _For my sister, and the friends who have become sisters_
  
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  > NO SIR, THAT’S NOT MY GAL
  
  By 1927 there were twelve girls who danced all night and never gave names, but
  by then the men had given up asking and called them all Princess.
  
  “Hey, Princess, dust off your shoes? It’s the Charleston!”
  
  The men would have called them anything they wanted to be called, Dollface or
  Queenie or Beloved, just to get one girl on the dance floor for a song. But in
  that flurry of short dresses and spangles and ribbon-tied shoes, Princess was
  the name that suited; it seemed m