Everyone in Valefort knows the legend of Kesteran’s star-crossed lovers, Graeme Iskander and Isabelle Grayson. Those who have known Graeme the longest are well aware of how losing Isabelle had changed him. Read: not for the better. But that’s all history, and has been for a very long time. Until Queen Snow White decides to dredge it all up again, tear open old wounds, and pack them full of salt. Of all the people to betray him like that, he never would have expected it to be the one person who should know better.

But she has her reasons. Isabelle’s abusive old fart of a husband stands accused of conspiracy to overthrow Snow’s rule, and Isabelle herself turned him in. He skipped town before he could be arrested, but he’ll come running back, straight into Graeme’s trap, when he learns about his wife shacking up with her old flame. It’s a good plan. As long as Graeme can remember that it’s just a ruse…