CONTENTS

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Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Prologue: Plans in Motion

PART ONE

Chapter One: Among Old Friends

Chapter Two: Making Peace

Chapter Three: The Queen in Council

Chapter Four: “In the beginning . . .”

Chapter Five: The Queen in Consultation

Chapter Six: Unpreparedness

PART TWO

Chapter Seven: Prince Bifalt’s Courtship of Princess Estie

Chapter Eight: The General’s Return

Chapter Nine: Queen Estie’s Companions

Chapter Ten: Before the First Encounters

Chapter Eleven: Poking a Nest

Chapter Twelve: King’s Secret

Chapter Thirteen: Nothing Without Help

PART THREE

Chapter Fourteen: A Courted Man

Chapter Fifteen: Deliveries

Chapter Sixteen: Telling Each Other the Truth

Chapter Seventeen: An Interrogation

Chapter Eighteen: The Spy and the Archpriest

Chapter Nineteen: A Crisis in Belleger’s Fist

Chapter Twenty: A Day of Squalls

Chapter Twenty-One: The Queen’s Choice

Epilogue: Coming

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