A man reflects on the past week while an unexpected storm rages outside, and he compares the events that follow with the fall of the Roman Empire.

In a Victorian London where the upper class eats the poor, a young married woman gains an invite to a coveted cannibalistic feast, pleasing her husband and elevating her social status. But after a falling out with the hostess and her husband, she is forced to make a sacrifice from her own family before she can be reaccepted into high society.

After being offered a 100,000 pound advance to write a book on the twentieth century, a historian/writer struggling with depression takes to London to begin this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Upon the death of their tyrannical mistress, three old maids venture to the place she forbade them to go and reminisce about her life.

On his sixth birthday, a young boy receives a surprise present that forever changes his perspective on life.

When a music teacher in Medieval England finds an alluring young student who can sing the perfect note, his home life comes crashing down around him.

An assassin begins to question the king's authority after they are forced to kill someone innocent. The assassin must decide if they will still protect the king, who is their brother, against a legendary murderer of royal figures.

A young lord gets distracted on his wedding night by the revival of an old friend, and awakens to find himself in a different time.

When Harold's wife dies, seemingly by malicious cause, he becomes the prime suspect. As the public defender investigates her death, he finds that she may have held secrets herself.

In a dystopian society where select boys are surgically mutilated and used as economic tools, a teenager helps track down and capture one of the boys who recently escaped from captivity. Though his goal is to return the escapee to the wealthy creator of these boys, the teenager soon begins to question the entire premise of their society.