After completing her first year of learning magic at Whitehall School, Emily
accepts an invitation from Princess Alassa to accompany her on her
progress back to her home country of Zangaria, where the princess may
meet her future husband. Alassa, who was a spoiled brat before she met
Emily, wants to show off her friend – and impress potential suitors.
For Emily, it is a chance to relax and explore a world very different to
Earth, meet new people and come to terms with her reputation in the
Nameless World. After her defeat of Shadye, everyone wants to know her,
to talk with her, to kill her... or to marry her. For Emily, hardly a
social butterfly, the experience is disconcerting. She was never
seriously courted before, not on Earth.
And yet, as she sees
more of the countries surrounding Whitehall, she feels more and more out of place. The locals come from a very different culture, one that is
often strange and horrifying to her eyes. Even her friends seem
different people in their homes.
But dark forces are at work,
plotting to capture the princess, take power in Zangaria... and undo
all of Emily's work. As all hell breaks loose, Emily may be all that
stands between Zangaria and a return to the dark ages of brute force
that threatened to lay the kingdom low, once before. And if she fails,
her friends will be just the first victims of a war that will rip the
Allied Lands apart.
