Just a Herbalist

I’m just a simple herbalist, and as best I can, I continue my grandmother’s work. One day, the Lord Chancellor himself arrived at my backwoods place with a demand to save a deadly poisoned duke. No wonder my mother kept telling me to stay away from aristocrats!

I had to go immediately, in an unfamiliar company, to search for a rare flower—the main ingredient of the antidote. The Chancellor’s character is—no heaven forbid—irritating. And my behavior constantly drives him up the wall. Plus, I have absolutely no idea what to do with the magic that suddenly woke up…