Lady Arianne Reinard, daughter of the Duke of Willowport, never liked engaging with the banality of high society. She dreamed not of being an obedient wife and mother, like her nasty and narrow-minded sister Maribel, but of becoming an actress. Theatre was her great joy, and it was one fateful night outside of Willowport Theatre that brought her an introduction to the Fenfolk, her only true friends. Father did not approve, of course, it was uncouth for a Lady to be spending so much time with vagrants — But how could Lady Arianne resist? Those who inhabited the Fens had far more interesting stories to tell than the pompous cads who inhabited the aristocracy. Indeed, the Fenfolk certainly knew how to entertain more than Ser Alistair, Lady Arianne's suitor, at the