The Problem of Choice

There are proposals you simply can’t refuse. Even if you’re a king. Because the members of the state council, who insist—very firmly—that you marry, are able to create conditions under which there’s no way to wriggle out of the demand.

There are requests from which you can’t turn away, even if you’re an archmage, the commander of the Magical Security Service, and a professor. Because the king’s request is equal to an order.

There are situations when you don’t want to trust your eyes: strange coincidences; compromising materials—releasing which harms many. Baroness Lavinia Redfield will have to, step by step, study the circumstances, verify the coincidences, and turn the heavy stench of compromising evidence into the light breeze of innocence.

Just because once, she earned the king’s trust. And now our heroine will conduct a secret selection of brides for His Majesty—an election known only to six people: the king himself, his personal secretary, the baroness, her two assistants, and the head of the king’s personal guards—an orc named Grungakh. Six. Or is there a seventh someone too?