Dear Queen Who Will Never Read This Letter

Rina wakes up in a palace where every smile can be used as proof against her. She already knows the rules of this world because she once played the game that built it, but she also knows the gap in her own memory, the two months she spent at the royal magic school before dropping out. That gap matters, because her new job as a low-ranking scribe keeps dragging her toward the people who run the court, and toward the one choice she keeps refusing to make. Rina carries an exit pass she will not surrender, a cup of water with a date written inside, and a folded silk pouch that keeps turning up where it should not be. The girl she should never trust starts reading her letters, and every line Rina...