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One will come who will be thrice cursed. Once before, to prevent arrival. After years of trying and failing to have a child, my parents were willing to give almost anything to conceive. They never expected that I would be the one to bear the cost. Once at the beginning, to take away protection. I paid the ultimate price with my name. Now I cannot have my own or learn anyone else’s. In a land where names hold the most potent magic, I’m feared and hated because of my curse, as if it could somehow infect others.

After his farm fails and his cow goes dry, Jack is certain the Happy Ending will intervene. He isn't prepared for how lost he feels when it doesn't. Heartbroken, he determines to save his family himself. Hepsibah resents being cast by the Happy Ending as the villain in the cursed princess story. Ignoring tradition, the aged fairy tries to give a true gift to the babe rather than a curse. She doesn't know that nothing she does will turn out as expected.