Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie, 34th in line for the throne, is flat broke. She's bolted from Scotland after her greedy brother cut off her allowance, and is leaving behind her fish-faced betrothed for London. The place where she'll experience freedom, learn life lessons aplenty, do a bit of spying for the queen herself -- oh, and find a dead Frenchman in her tub. Now her new job is to clear her long family name.

Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie, thirty-fourth in line for the throne, is flat broke. After working at a cosmetics counter and making some money housekeeping in disguise, she's been summoned by the Queen to spy on her playboy son. Then an arrogant Frenchman, who wants her family's 800-year-old estate for himself, winds up dead in her bathtub. Now her most important job is to clear her very long family name.

"In the new Royal Spyness Mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of Crowned and Dangerous, Lady Georgiana Rannoch juggles secret missions from the Queen, Darcy, and her mother. But it's all in a day's work when you're thirty-fifth in line to the British Crown. When Darcy runs off on another secret assignment, I am left to figure out how to travel to Italy sans maid and chaperone to help my dear friend Belinda, as she awaits the birth of her baby alone. An opportunity presents itself in a most unexpected way--my cousin the queen is in need of a spy to attend a house party in the Italian lake country. The Prince of Wales and the dreadful Mrs. Simpson have been invited, and Her Majesty is anxious to thwart a possible secret wedding. What luck! A chance to see Belinda and please the queen as I seek her permission to relinquish my claim to the throne so I can marry Darcy. Only that's as far as my good fortune takes me. I soon discover that Mummy is attending the villa party and

"There are more important things than being thirty-fifth in line for the British crown, and Lady Georgiana Rannoch knows her true love, Darcy O'Mara, is one of them. Luckily, the queen agrees, but she has a little mission for Georgiana before she can say 'I do!'"--Jacket.

Lady Georgiana Rannoch juggles secret missions from the Queen, Darcy, and her mother.

When Darcy runs off on another secret assignment, Lady Georgina is left to figure out how to travel to Italy sans maid and chaperone to help her dear friend Belinda, as she awaits the birth of her baby alone. What luck-- her cousin the queen is in need of a spy to attend a house party in the Italian lake country! The Prince of Wales and the dreadful Mrs. Simpson have been invited, and Her Majesty is anxious to thwart a possible secret wedding. But Mummy is attending the villa party and she has her own secret task for Georgina. Then, Darcy shows up saying that the fate of a world on the brink of war could very well depend on what she overhears at dinner!