Princess Floralinda and the Forty Flight Tower (2020)

Floralinda's princes keep failing to get past the monsters in her tower, so waiting politely becomes a poor survival strategy. Muir makes each floor a practical problem and lets the princess's lessons become increasingly alarming. The result is an adult fairy tale about what training someone to escape can turn them into. Playful narration meets real cruelty. The tower's forty floors give that transformation a firm, satisfyingly practical structure.