A sleep story for a racing mind, told on a night when the sky itself cannot seem to settle. Stars begin falling one by one into the shallow water along the shore, and Prince Freddie and the dachshund twins Indie and Malva must gather them home, star by scattered star, before dawn. A story about rounding up every last loose, glowing thought and putting it gently back where it belongs.

Prince Freddie is a small dog in a flat gold crown who lives in a sleepy village on the Spanish coast, where the days are warm, the sea is always close, and nothing is ever in a hurry. These are unhurried sleep stories, written to quiet an anxious mind and soften the end of the day. You are not meant to reach the end.

If this one ends before you do, there is a longer telling. The Settle, Night 9, is the same story told twice, slower the second time, 25 mi ...