Once upon a time, there was a rich girl who got kicked out of her father's mansion because she couldn't care less about knights on white horses. Instead, she wants her happily ever after with another woman—with Dawn, a cashier at the local supermarket, to be more exact.

Rich Girl is a fairy tale without fairies, but with a villain, not one but two damsels in distress, and a helpful sprite. No princes, no dragons, but cash registers and guitars.

Joan Arling is a little hard to localize: She lives on German bread, French wine, Irish beer, and Dutch tobacco. When she can afford it, she also likes whiskies from the southern coast of Islay. She's been a truck driver, a teacher, a drug courier, a rock musician. Her favourite pastimes are mistreating her guitar and spoiling her best friend's three tabbies. Oh yes, reading and writing, too. So far, she has published two short stories and one novella.