On the eve of Princess Sophia's wedding the Scandinavian city of Skyggehavn prepares to fete the occasion with a sumptuous display of riches. Yet beneath the veneer of celebration, a shiver of darkness creeps through the palace halls. A mysterious illness plagues the royal family, threatening the lives of the throne's heirs, and a courtier's wolfish hunger for the king's favors sets a devious plot in motion. In the palace at Skyggehave, things are...

"A new telling of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, told from the perspective of Juliet's nurse. In Verona, a city ravaged by plague and political rivalries, a mother mourning the death of her day-old infant enters the household of the powerful Cappelletti family to become the wet-nurse to their newborn baby. As she serves her beloved Juliet over the next fourteen years, the nurse learns the Cappelletti's darkest secrets. Those secrets -- and the nurse's...

Province of Santander. Second Spanish Republic. Vega, a courageous and determined young woman, must leave the soft meadows in Vega de Pas where she grew up, and ones she loves so much, to go work in Madrid. In Madrid she works as a nanny for a wealthy bourgeois family. A large number of servants live along with the Vaudelets in their house next to the Retiro Park, and all of them cautiously hide unspeakable secrets. While Vega struggles to find her...