impossible commission book ideas

Instructions for Burying a Mountain

When a living mountain dies, the villages on its slopes hire an undertaker to bury it.

The Cathedral Is a Cake

A pastry cook in 1791 is commissioned to bake a cathedral large enough to walk inside. A carpenter hired to support the sugar walls discovers that the extravagant dessert is concealing a very practical plan to keep the town's poorest residents outside the celebration.

A Castle for the Uninvited

In 1620, a widowed surveyor is paid to design a grand house with no guest entrance. The woman responsible for feeding its construction workers proposes an inconvenient alternative, and their growing alliance turns an architectural commission into a battle over who deserves shelter.