There’s one test left before this bold young warrior can strike out on her own. Going undercover as a maid? Not what she trained for.

Tinsa has almost completed her training to become a professional heroine—solver of problems and seeker of justice. Confident and sharp-tongued, she can fight with a sword, a bow, or magic.

Now, in order for her to graduate, her teachers have given her one final mission: a wealthy lady who’s received a threat to her life needs a bodyguard.

There’s just one catch. In order to nab the culprit, Tinsa must pretend to be the lady’s maid.

Tinsa has many skills, but blending into the background is not one of them. Death threats, she can handle; looking meek is going to be a lot harder. And the attentions of a handsome servant boy might prove the biggest challenge of all. But if she doesn’t play her role well, innocents will die, the truth will stay hidden…and she’ll never prove she’s worthy of her sword.

This is a novella of about 22,000 words taking place nine years before the “A Heroine’s Luck” series, telling the backstory of one of the characters. It can be read first as an introduction to the world.