A queen secretly spends her mornings tending bees beyond the palace. When the royal garden begins producing honey that reveals feelings people have hidden, the gardener protecting her escape must decide which truths belong to the crown and which belong to them.
A clockmaker finds one day missing from her future and traces it to a captain whose ship sails on borrowed time. Recovering it becomes harder when she learns what he used it to save, and neither can accept a love paid for by somebody else's life.
