Puts a new spin on the familiar story of Belle, a kind-hearted young woman who saves her father by agreeing to go live in the castle of a Beast.

In "Before Midnight," Cendrillon tests her father's will by leaving the grounds for a royal ball; in "Golden," Rapunzel, born bald, must break an enchantment to free her heart; and in "Wild Orchid," Mulan joins the army disguised as a boy.

Born bald and raised by an adoptive mother, Rapunzel is finally told the truth about Rue, another daughter trapped in a tower due to a witch's curse, and so she heads off to help the imprisoned girl but becomes jealous of Rue's beautiful hair.

After Grace rejects next-door neighbor Kai's love, he dreams of a dazzling Snow Queen, who entices him to leave home and wander to faraway lands, prompting Grace to realize how much she has lost and set out on a mystical journey to find him.

In a time when the world was young and many things were quite commonplace that are now entirely forgotten, Sarastro, Mage of the Day, wed Pamina, the Queen of the Night. And in this way was the world complete, for light was joined to dark. For all time would they be joined together. Only the ending of the world could tear them apart. In other words, in the days in which my parents married, there was no such thing as divorce....".

Rejected by her own mother because she is bald, Rapunzel is raised by the sorceress Melisande, who loves her as if she were her own. When unrest and suspicion drive Melisande and Rapunzel from their farm, Melisande takes them to the tower where her daughter Rue has been imprisoned for years, and where she hopes that Rapunzel will help to rescue Rue.

A collection of stories based upon investigations of the supernatural conducted by the authors, founders of The Atlantic Paranormal Society (TAPS).