Free from the author via KDP Select @
Amazon: (linkage for the lot)
The Blood Like Wine by Sarah A. Hoyt (
ISFDB,
Wikipedia), a fantasy short originally published in Dreams of Decadence #15 in 2001.
Her Baen-published science fiction novella is also still free (as is her Baen Free Library shapeshifter urban fantasy novel, which is not KDP Select, but available in all the usual stores).
Sylvie would do anything not to be poor ever again. Unfortunately, at the time of the French revolution, wealth might cost her her life, or at least her soul.