If fate gives you a second chance, it’s foolish not to use it—even if it means risking everything. That’s more or less what Idana Mornhoot, a hereditary technomage, thought, fleeing her past to a neighboring country to marry there as reinforcement for a political alliance. A calm marriage, a technomage laboratory, and research in prosthetics—something like that was what she envisioned for her future. And all of it will happen, if she chooses the right man. But if she chooses the wrong one… Well, then it’s a good chance to learn a lot of new things!