Mirror of Hope

Parents are good? Not then, when they show up on your doorstep fifteen years after parting and try to collect child support. Love is wonderful? But not when it’s unrequited and silent. Do men like that? Sure, but—depending on which men.

And those are only Matilda’s problems.

Maria-Elena has her own troubles. The capital is luxury and the glitter of the royal court? No, gentlemen, it’s a snake pit of conspirators. Allodia is a beautiful country? But not when at the border there are forty thousand enemies pushing forward successfully—and the king… The king is unwell. And the cause of his illness is still unknown. What love is there, what marriages? But you can’t just stop relatives! They need an inheritance!

And somehow, they’ll have to fend off something, decide something, go forward… But Matilda and Maria-Elena won’t be the ones to mope—because now they aren’t alone. Thanks to you, mirror, for giving them a sister—and hope!