The final installment in Richelle Mead’s sweeping, enthralling Glittering Court series answers the trilogy’s biggest question: what’s the secret that drives Tamsin to win at all costs?

Tamsin Wright is unstoppable. She must end up being the Glittering Court’s diamond: the girl with the highest test scores, probably the most gorgeous wardrobe, and the best opportunities to complement with an elite suitor in the New World. Training alongside other young ladies in the Glittering Courtroom, Tamsin immerses herself about The Emerald Sea totally in lessons about etiquette, background, and music–everything a high-society wife would have to understand. Once she’s wedded, she’ll have the ability to afford a better life on her behalf family, so the sacrifice will probably be worth it if she can be the most effective.

When her friendship with Mira and Adelaide, her roommates at the Glittering Court, threatens her status mainly because the top-ranked prospect, she does the thing she knows will keep her on the right track: she cuts them away of her life. However when her voyage across the sea goes off course, Tamsin must make use of her unrelenting grit and perseverance to survive the severe winter considerably north of her designed destination hoping of earning it back to the Glittering Court with time to protected a proposal–and a comfortable future on her behalf family.

Encountering new cultures and beliefs for the first time, Tamsin realizes that her careful research haven’t prepared her for everything, and with new alliances created with roguish tradesman Jago Robinson and good-natured minister Gideon Stewart, Tamsin’s heart begins to be pulled in different directions. But she can’t allow her producing attraction get in the way of her greatest goal: protecting the secret she holds closest to her heart, one that would unravel everything she’s worked well for if it’s uncovered.