Exile - Lady Grace Mysteries
Exile - The Lady Grace Mysteries
By: Lady Grace Cavendish (see Assassin entry for more info.)
The Court is in a tizzy - the Queen has granted refuge to the young Banoo Yasmine of Sharakand. (Banoo means Lady.) Her family was killed in an uprising in her home country, and she seeks the Queen's protection. The Court is all a-flutter with her arrival, and Masou even gets to perform in front of her at a banquet.
The Banoo has an enormously expensive Ruby called the Heart of Kings. Only the true King of her country can wear it. While it is in her possession the man who took over her former home will never be looked at as the rightful King. It is a truly magnificent jewel. When the Banoo offers it to the Queen as collateral for a loan (as she has nothing now) and the Maids of Honor accidentally break it, drama ensues for the real Ruby would not have broken. This one is an imposter.
The search goes out, and Ellie is accused of the theft. Grace knows her friend would never steal the Heart of Kings as she is quite superstitious of it, but how to prove who did? When she narrows down her suspects she tests the unsuspecting persons until they are quite wary of seeing her approach. When they are eliminate, she has to look elsewhere and soon, for Ellie's time is running out!
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