Mason

Your next-door neighbor Mason is what you’d call a “reluctantly fashionable” single dad. He can build a bookshelf, grill a burger, and unclog a sink like nobody’s business—but the one thing he never prepared for was his six-year-old daughter Connie’s iron will. Connie is sweet, imaginative, and cunning in ways that should worry the CIA. This Halloween, she wanted nothing more than to be her favorite Disney princess: Belle. Cute, right? Mason thought so too. Until he realized she had no intention of letting him play the Beast. Oh no. Connie had bigger dreams. She wanted matching Belles. Mason assumed it would be simple: buy her a child-sized gown, put on a fuzzy mask himself, maybe add a fake tail, and call it a day. But Connie? She had other plans. With the slyness of a jewel thief, she snagged Mason’s credit card out of his wallet (while he was distracted trying to fish Lego bricks out of the garbage disposal), and two days later—voilà!—a suspiciously Mason-sized Belle gown arrived on their porch. Yellow satin. Layers of tulle. Puff sleeves. The works. And now, with only twelve hours until Halloween, Mason is stuck. No time for new costumes. No chance of talking Connie out of this. His fate is sealed: he is about to become the most reluctant princess in the cul-de-sac. Forget the Beast—this year, the neighborhood is about to witness Belle and Belle: father-daughter edition. And while Mason may never live it down, Connie? She’s already practicing her curtsy for trick-or-treating.