The Problem of Choice

There are offers you can’t refuse. Even if you’re a king. Because members of the state council, who insist that you must marry, know how to create conditions where it’s impossible to avoid the demand. There are requests you can’t brush off. Even if you’re an archmage, a commander of the Magical Security Service, and a professor. Because a king’s request is equivalent to an order.

There are situations where you don’t want to trust your eyes: strange coincidences; compromising materials that, if revealed, would harm many people. Baroness Lavinia Redfield will have to examine the circumstances step by step, verify the coincidences, and turn the heavy stench of compromising evidence into the faint breeze of something harmless—simply because once, she earned the king’s trust. And now our heroine will carry out a secret selection of brides for His Majesty—an election known only to six people: the king himself, his personal secretary, the baroness, two of her assistants, and the head of His Majesty’s personal guard—an orc named Grungah. Six. Or is there someone else—the seventh?