Three weeks have not been long enough to convert Adelia from her peasant ways into a proper attendant to Lady Elisabeth, only daughter of the Duke of Bayern. Suddenly, Lady Elisabeth is accused of heresy, and Lady Adelia is left alone in the hostile world of the nobility. Although they had praised her father for his bravery in saving the duchy years before, many of the nobles now despise Lady Adelia's humble birth, and she struggles to preserve her father's reputation.

As Lady Adelia maneuvers this fickle world in her attempt to rescue Lady Elisabeth and the duchy of Bayern from a tyrannous man, she finds herself caught in a web of lies and secrets: secrets of others and secrets of her own. With honesty and deceit confronting her at every turn in her quest, how will she know who is worthy of her trust and who is a spy?