A Word so Fitly Spoken

<p><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>One stunning bride.</em></p><p><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>One wedding.</em></p><p><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>One night with the king.</em></p><p><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>One execution come morning.</em></p><p><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Rinse and repeat.</em></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>When the fae king of Naenden returns home to his palace only to find that his human queen has committed treason by conspiring to assassinate him he has the queen executed and decrees that once every mooncycle he'll marry a human woman from the kingdom only to execute her the following morning.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Unless...</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Unless one woman offers herself as a sacrificial bride for the rest.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Asha isn't worried about being chosen of course. The decree was quite clear about beauty being among the top criteria for being selected as one of the king's unfortunate brides. And Asha is no beauty all thanks to the illegal magic that inhabits her body leaving her scarred and missing an eye. The same magic that occasionally possesses her voice so it can amuse itself by telling a never-ending story with a string of horrible cliffhangers.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The problem is Asha might not be a beauty but her sister Dinah is. When Asha realizes Dinah is in danger of being selected as the king's sacrificial bride Asha decides she can't live with that risk. So she offers herself instead.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Except on the night of their wedding the king grants Asha a final request.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Naturally she asks to tell her sister one last bedtime story.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Naturally the king eavesdrops.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The question is...</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Will the story save her life...or ruin it?</strong></p><p><br></p><p><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A tale of love and betrayal vengeance and sacrifice magic and romance this imaginative retelling of 1001 Nights will keep you guessing with each turn of the page.</em></p>