The bonds of love… The bonds of matrimony… The bonds between husband and wife… Let’s face it-some bonds are made to be broken. Here, for the first time ever, are four stories based on the classic idea of the ‘faerie tale wedding’ – except this time, the damsels aren’t the ones in distress.
Laurell K. Hamilton spins a story of a princess who decides to take her own destiny in hand and rescue a pampered Prince Charming from an evil sorceress in ‘Can he bake a cherry pie?’
A selkie on the run from a century-old broken marriage arrangement has finally found true love – only to have the darkness from her past return to threaten both her and her dearly beloved in…Yasmine Galenorn’s ‘The shadow of mist.’
Marjorie M. Liu tells the tale of a young princess who escapes betrothal to a warlord by entering a magical forest. But when an evil queen sends her on a quest to ‘The Tangleroot Palace,’ she faces dangers more perilous than marriage.
When a princess refuses her boring betrothed, the king holds a competition to see who will win his daughter’s hand. But in matters of the heart, is a winner truly worthy–or can a loser offer even more in … Sharon Shinn’s ‘The wrong bridegroom’?