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    Seven Nobles. Three Murders. Terror grips the Court of Fontaine. Three aristocratic members of the Pharamond High Council have been found dead, and all evidence points to Melusine Thirona. Only Navia Caspar is willing to stand as her defense. Despite risking the newly restored reputation of Spina di Rosula and straining her relationship with Chief Justice Neuvillette, Navia is determined to prove Thirona’s innocence. She will do whatever it takes, even infiltrating an aristocratic masquerade to investigate the surviving members of the Council. Among them is none other than Duke Wriothesley of Meropide. The Duke is exactly as Navia remembers him. Infuriatingly insolent, insufferably arrogant, and impossibly self-assured. But when another noble is brutally murdered in the middle of the ballroom and Navia becomes the prime suspect, the people she trusted turning against her. With no one else believe her, Navia has only one choice. She must place her faith in Wriothesley, the one person who still believes she’s innocent. Can Navia expose the true murderer, clear her own name before the Chief Justice of the Court of Fontaine, and bring the killer to justice? Or has she herself been hiding the truth from everyone all along?

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