Struggling under relentless illness during her first pregnancy, Princess Ada of Ardor convinces her husband that moving to a cottage in the woods is exactly what she needs until birthing the heir to the throne. Only neither the prince nor the princess anticipate that the private cottage in the woods holds the thing that can both save her child's life and steal it away.

This Rapunzel short story fits in the Canens Chronicles as a side story that can be read independent of the series.