ByEmily Powers

Emily Powers works in publishing. She spends most of her free time getting into scrapes.

  1. Previously in this series: Honoré de Balzac. 1. A king trusts you to post a letter that may or may not contain high treason. 2. Your friend picks up the handkerchief that your lady has dropped. You demand retribution for this disgusting act of betrayal. 3. You either have a kind, good-hearted father, who is devastated by your misdeeds, or you have a drunken, Napoleon-sympathizing father whom you killed in order to advance…

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