Glass Slippers & Wi-Fi

Classic fairy tales. Futuristic worlds. Fearless heroines.

Book One of the Coded Crowns Series

Harper Santos spends her nights cleaning the gleaming halls of Lumina Technologies, one of the most powerful tech companies in the world. To everyone around her, she's invisible—a quiet janitor pushing a cleaning cart through offices filled with people who barely know she exists.

That's exactly how she wants it.

Because if anyone discovered the truth, everything would change.

Behind her worn uniform and lowered gaze is a brilliant self-taught programmer with a mind capable of solving problems that stump the world's most celebrated engineers. By day, she cleans around cutting-edge technology. By night, she becomes MidnightCoder, a legendary anonymous programmer whose reputation stretches across the underground digital world.

Harper has spent years hiding her intelligence, surviving in a society where credentials matter more than talent and where people like her are never invited into the rooms where decisions are made.

Then she discovers a flaw.

Deep inside Lumina's most ambitious project—a revolutionary neural interface called NeuroSync—Harper finds a critical coding error that could destroy years of research and potentially put lives at risk. The company's elite engineering team can't see the problem, but Harper sees it instantly.

The solution is simple.

The consequences are anything but.

Fixing the flaw could save the project and change the future of human technology. But exposing her knowledge could shatter the carefully crafted life she's built and reveal secrets she has spent years protecting.

Complicating everything is Adrian Blake, Lumina's brilliant and demanding CEO.

Adrian is a visionary who built an empire through intelligence, determination, and impossible ambition. He expects excellence from everyone around him and trusts almost no one. With a billion-dollar demonstration approaching and investors demanding results, the pressure surrounding NeuroSync is reaching a breaking point.

When mysterious improvements begin appearing inside the project's codebase, Adrian becomes obsessed with finding the anonymous genius responsible.

He never imagines the answer might be the quiet woman cleaning his office.

As Harper is drawn deeper into the project, she finds herself balancing two dangerous lives: the invisible employee no one notices and the hidden innovator whose ideas could reshape the future. The closer she gets to Adrian, the harder it becomes to maintain the walls she has built around herself.

But someone else is watching.

Corporate rivals want NeuroSync for themselves. Powerful investors have secrets of their own. And the more Harper uncovers about the project, the more she realizes that the greatest threat isn't the code—it's the people controlling it.

In a world where power belongs to those with money, influence, and access, Harper must decide whether remaining invisible is worth sacrificing everything she believes in.

Because fairy tales have changed.

This Cinderella doesn't need a prince to save her.

She only needs a password, a laptop, and the courage to finally step into the spotlight.

Filled with heart, humor, romance, and high-tech intrigue, Glass Slippers & Wi-Fi is a fresh futuristic Cinderella retelling about hidden brilliance, found confidence, and discovering that sometimes the person who changes the kingdom is the one everyone overlooked.

Perfect for readers who love strong heroines, STEM romance, secret identities, slow-burn chemistry, and fairy tales reimagined for the digital age.