All that the young mage practicing his craft in human lands dreamed of was a place for a mage in a small manor, where you’re well fed and no one bothers you while you research.
But fate, in the person of the queen and her advisors, decided everything differently. And now he must do everything he can not to botch the contract, not to lose his mage’s mantle, and not to be defeated by a capricious girl who has already survived four of his colleagues.
And as a reward for all of this, he will face an even more dangerous assignment, a pile of mysterious enemies, unexpected discoveries and losses — and a timid, still-hopeful chance at love. And only the mage depends on whether he will manage, despite everything, to find his happiness.