1 The Birthday

On her eighteenth birthday my heroine, Layla, gets whisked away to a cold, lonely castle where she's to live with her new husband, the future king.

It turns out that Layla is the only woman in his kingdom. And he's only king because he has no daughters. Or sons. And they've been trying for years to make that happen. So they're not happy with their new arrangement and they have their ways of getting back at each other--maybe even working together on occasion!

Every day is a fight for power and control. Every plan for peace is just one step closer to chaos. But there's power in chaos too--and some parts of the chaos are absolute bliss...

While caught up in the day-to-day drudgery of keeping up with a demanding job and family, a woman discovers a magic lamp that mysteriously changes her life.