All I wanted was to eat for free at someone else’s wedding by pretending to be a guest—and I got in over my ears. Now I’ll have to do not only pretend to be the fiancée of Lord Baumgartner, the royal necromancer, but also go with him to the Blackheaven orphanage—where the trail of the mysterious enemy of my fake husband disappears. And all I can do is believe that this adventure will be well paid for—and to check in practice the claim that the best fiancée of a necromancer is a living fiancée.