Description

When her brother unexpectedly dies, Tanry Teneri becomes the heir to a grand estate and an arcane machine that can tell absolute truth. She’s happy being the richest heiress in the country until her father betroths her to an elderly Duke. Yet there’s a loophole: if Tanry can find a husband of higher rank within two months, she can marry him instead, and Tanry is determined to choose her own husband.

Faced with the loss of her home and her freedom if she fails, Tanry travels to the royal palace to court Archduke Cezsario Boralda-Solkin, the exiled former heir to a country that has no further need of a monarchy. He has the archduke title, and that’s all Tanry needs. He’s a bore and hardly likes her, but Tanry is hardly deterred. She’s after freedom, not love. She’s determined to get her engagement no matter the cost, and no matter his feelings. She has a machine that, with the right prompt, can tell her all of the archduke’s secrets, and he has plenty that Tanry can use against him.

Tanry Teneri’s Manual for Young Ladies is a fantasy of manners novel and the first in a series (The Tales from Karda Ven), where each book is based around a different character.