As a child, Jolene learns she has a gift: She can see a person's fate. It appears as a golden charm around their neck.

She doesn't want her gift. She wants a normal life—a job, a husband, and kids.

Now, after finding the perfect man, Jolene can't get pregnant. She makes a deal with the lady in the wall, then follows a strange professor into the land of creole fairy courts.

What must she sacrifice there to make her dreams come true?

This story is part of the collection of short stories, "Baker's Dozen."

Include the first chapter of the novel, "Zydeco Queen and the Creole Fairy Courts," which is set in the same world.