Mags and Amily are both settling into their new roles, and the King has decided to use their wedding as the kind of party where they can have a lot of diplomatic goings on behind the scenes. Mags and Amily don’t really care – so long as the people that are important to them show up, they’ll go along with whatever the court throws at them.
Amily has come up with the idea to give some of the impoverished young woman of the court an opportunity to learn some spycraft and keep an eye on the nobles by being the best handmaids in the kingdom. She’s gotten her first recruit just in time for a diplomatic crisis – someone in the neighboring kingdom of Menmellith is trying to make it look like Valdemar is trying to overthrown their child king. Mags and several others are off into the country to figure out why.
This book is a lot of fun, with Mags and Amily really coming into their own, and with some fun spycraft.
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