The age-old Arabian Nights tale has a new twist in this fast-paced novelette. When a beggar girl in the streets of Parsa discovers the royal prince is returning to the city, she wishes to be his wife, but her wish gets twisted. She and her younger sister find themselves in the harem of his father, as the latest of a long line of brides that never live to see the day after the marriage. Herazade must think fast to save both her sister and herself, so she relies on a mysterious genie in the dented, old lamp.