Never agree to marry your own director! Never! Especially if you’re a simple adept of the Academy of Curses and a budding private investigator, and he’s the nephew of the emperor of the Dark Empire!
Because after such a rash decision, you’ll have to fight not just your mother-in-law, but an entire mother-in-law monster… And besides, artifacts of the Thier line will rush into your life along with yet another investigation, and you’ll have to figure out who stole them and why. And how is it connected to the long-ago history of a human slave executed for a curse? And what does a wooden tablet found on the corpse of a murdered gnome have to do with it all? And the main question—how to avoid the wedding to which he has already given his consent!
After all, dark lords are not used to retreating…