What do you do when your father gives you a castle to run but then threatens to take it back the second your future husband is murdered? Burgravine Brynhild of Meiser had better find out soon, because she needs this castle to protect her dearest friends from homelessness and a potential invasion of the Luronian army from the steppes. It’s especially important to protect them when one of those friends gives birth to twins who are now living in her cash-strapped and struggling home.
Suspicious servants and a maniacal midwife all add to her problems as she tries to solve the murder of her intended. Will she be forced to accept her friends’ help? Will she find out who stabbed her intended before her father takes back everything she holds dear?