stepmothers

Ninth-grader Maisie's concepts of friendship, loyalty, self-acceptance, and truth are tested to their limit after a school bus incident involving three boys who have been her best friends since early childhood.

Samantha, a high schooler whose life mirrors Cinderella's, defies her stepmother to attend the Halloween costume ball where she is supposed to finally learn the identity of her online love, Nomad, but she is shocked to find he is the most popular boy in school, and before she can unmask herself, she is forced to flee, leaving her cell phone behind.

When their father invites a mail-order bride to come live with them in their prairie home, Caleb and Anna are captivated by their new mother and hope that she will stay.

Snow White and her stepmother, the Queen, tell their own versions of the events that led Snow White to leave the castle and take up residence with the Seven Dwarfs.

Young Xing Xing is bound to a life of hard work and servitude to her step-mother and step-sister until she happens to meet a prince at a festival.

Rose is devastated when her stepmother destroys the beautiful rose garden her mother planted before her death, but a chance meeting with the king gives Rose the opportunity to love again.

In a modern version of the Snow White fairy tale, eighteen-year-old Bella is plagued by a series of mysterious accidents while singing with a small band in London and Paris during her summer break from school, and believes them to be caused by her jealous, malevolent stepmother.

Princess Elena, lonely for a mother, persuades her father to let her choose the woman the he marries.

Corporate manager Sophie Mills' life changes when she is granted custody of her best friend's daughter after she is killed in a car accident, and, while easing into her role as a mother, she meets and falls in love with the girls' absent father, but soon starts to question if marrying a man who left his first wife is a smart decision.

Sixteen-year-old Anne, home from boarding school for the holidays, has difficulty accepting her new stepmother's presence in the house that holds so many memories of her dead mother.