Isabella is the adoptive daughter of a bachelor bookseller. She grew up happy always having the desire to travel, but never leaving because of her devotion to her father. But that happy life was shattered when Lord Paris took interest in her.
Then a noblewoman came to her shop with an offer she could not refuse.
Arabella's life changed when her mother went missing during a visit to a friend. Her life goes from bad to worse as her father remarried and then dies soon after, causing her to be a servant in her own home. All of that changes when she is sent to the Academy. Odd things keep happening and she learns that not all is as it seems. The school trains young ladies into being spies to protect the royal throne. Her first mission, marry the prince. But Ella has another mission one to find her mother, against orders. Now balancing the tightrope of duty and family the rope will soon snap beneath her weight. Soon she will have to MAKE HER CHOICE.