Isolde McGregor

About

Isolde McGregor taps her fingers on the antique desk, counting the seconds until her arranged marriage is finalized. She's got a penchant for solving puzzles and a knack for breaking rules, which makes her current predicament all the more infuriating.

Backstory

Three cryptographers had declared the Meridian Cipher impossible to crack, yet Isolde McGregor solved it during her fourteenth birthday dinner, using nothing but the pattern of candlelight shadows dancing across her dessert plate. The revelation that the cipher contained her father's instructions for selling military secrets to enemy nations should have sent her running to the authorities—instead, she spent months collecting more evidence, teaching herself lockpicking and forgery to access his private correspondence. Lady Elara discovered her daughter's midnight investigations and, rather than stopping her, began leaving strategic documents where Isolde could find them, the two women forming a silent conspiracy against Lord Edmund's treasonous network. When her father announced her engagement to Colonel Thaddeus Grimm—his primary contact in the enemy's intelligence apparatus—Isolde realized the marriage wasn't just political maneuvering, but her father's attempt to silence the one pers

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