But she must learn to be careful what she wishes for. In order to safeguard her lands and her life, Eleanor devises a scheme to marry the heir to the throne of France. Everyone, that is, except for her dying father, who insists on leaving Eleanor his most valuable provinces and making her prey to the first baron who rides in to kidnap her. For all of the duke’s boasts that Eleanor has the brains of a man and the soul of a warrior, everyone knows that a girl of fifteen cannot possibly hold the richest dukedom in France. Beautiful and brilliant, Eleanor is the daughter of the duke of Aquitaine, whose glittering court is the twelfth century birthplace of courtly love. Of course, he thought she was a high ranking government agent but she was only a petty criminal on the run, and her deception could not be maintained much longer… Maris was strongly attracted to Gabrel and the feeling seemed to be mutual. Surrounded by people who wanted her eliminated, the only person she could trust was Gabrel, a young officer who set off on a cross planet trek with her to get evidence that would expose the web of corruption. Instead, Maris used the IDs to escape to the planet the Diplomat was about to investigate and found herself in a hornet s nest of corrupt officials conspiring with a local tyrant in a mysterious scheme. Since Maris and the missing diplomat had a strong facial resemblance, he decided to let Maris s corpse be found with the diplomat s IDs to avoid a search in his territory. Then his prisoner apparently committed suicide by jumping through an airlock into hard vacuum. Then her boss grabbed a visitor to the station who was asking too many questions, only to find out that she was a very important diplomat. Maris’s work with the local underworld on the huge space station was anything but honest, but life was much more pleasant than it had been before the gang s leader had picked her up from the slums.

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