A King receives refuses to listen to claims from his barons and other powerful members of his kingdom that his thirty-three daughters are wicked, for they are clever and outspoken, and they work hard to elevate the status of women and the poor, acts which the barons find threatening. When the barons kidnap all thirty-three daughters, the kind but dimwitted king must figure out how to rescue them.

A maid, silently and in thought alone, contemplates her own position in a house full of opulent, decadent lives.

All throughout time, the magical history of a town reverberates—and its historic residents must journey great lengths to discover the truth.

When it's her turn to give her body over to the blood bees, a girl makes a different decision.

A gifted spellcrafter ponders an ethical question regarding the dead: to reanimate or to not reanimate?

On the weekend shift, a woman working at the bank finds herself stuck with her creepy supervisor.