For thirty-nine nights, the sultan of Zunbar has chosen a new wife.

For thirty-nine dawns, they are pronounced dead.

When Sultan Zayne summons my best friend to be taken as his newest victim, I can no longer pretend to be blind and volunteer in her stead. My only plan--weave a story each night and hopefully learn why he would kill in the first place. I don't belong here.

But as I unravel the tapestry of lies, I learn there's more going on inside its gilded walls than anyone in the land could have ever realized. A shadow looms in every corner and tries to possess Zayne each night. I've woven myself into the story, and if I don't pull on the right thread, it's not only my life at stake but my heart.

The Sultan and the Storyteller is one of twelve short novels in A Villain's Ever After, a collection of standalone stories featuring villainous twists on some of your favourite classic fairytales. Read the series in any order for magical adventures . . . and fall in love with villains as you've never seen them before. Who said villains can't have happily-ever-afters?