This book reads like it could have been tailor-written to Abrogail Thrune's tastes by somebody really rather smart who managed to get ahold of one of the Chelish romance novels that she'd had a hand in editing and matched that against a scattered handful of her notes to other worlds!  If the person was, like, really smart.  Possibly a whole team of people, actually.

Though, to overt appearances, it's about a world of Lawful Good men and women, as delicate and fragile in their own ways as the characters of the Earthtender stories, desperate to protect themselves from any hints of woe that could devastate the little and emotionally fragile happiness they possess.  They live in a world clearly advanced beyond Abrogail Thrune's own, as with many of the other protagonists, but their inner thoughts in relating to that world are strange, organized, reflective... there's hints that their entire world is run by rulers much darker than their little Lawful Good world, though the characters themselves never suspect it and think of themselves as self-ruled and independent; they walk within a world far more regimented than Cheliax, and believe themselves to be in Galt.

Into this world enters a character remarkably like Abrogail Thrune, though she's not called that; an Outsider who, even deprived of most of her more advanced magics, realizes at once through her fierce and clever and wise intelligence, that the slaves around herself must have a hidden master - and that she must now play a very calculating, incredibly cautious and paranoid game, if she wants to seduce her way through these beautiful fragile things without alerting any of their true masters -

A world of Lawful Good men and women, as delicate and fragile in their own ways as the characters of the Earthtender stories, desperate to protect themselves from any hints of woe that could devastate the little and emotionally fragile happiness they possess.  They live in a world clearly advanced beyond Abrogail Thrune's own, as with many of the other protagonists, but their inner thoughts in relating to that world are strange, organized, reflective... there's hints that their entire world is run by rulers much darker than their little Lawful Good world, though the characters themselves never suspect it and think of themselves as self-ruled and independent; they walk within a world far more regimented than Cheliax, and believe themselves to be in Galt.

Into this world enters a character remarkably like Abrogail Thrune, though she's not called that; an Outsider who, even deprived of most of her more advanced magics, realizes at once through her fierce and clever and wise intelligence, that the slaves around herself must have a hidden master - and that she must now play a very calculating, incredibly cautious and paranoid game, if she wants to seduce her way through these beautiful fragile things without alerting any of their true masters -

A world of Lawful Good men and women, as delicate and fragile in their own ways as the characters of the Earthtender stories, desperate to protect themselves from any hints of woe that could devastate the little and emotionally fragile happiness they possess.  They live in a world clearly advanced beyond Abrogail Thrune's own, as with many of the other protagonists, but their inner thoughts in relating to that world are strange, organized, reflective... there's hints that their entire world is run by rulers much darker than their little Lawful Good world, though the characters themselves never suspect it and think of themselves as self-ruled and independent; they walk within a world far more regimented than Cheliax, and believe themselves to be in Galt.

Into this world enters a character remarkably like Abrogail Thrune, though she's not called that; an Outsider who, even deprived of most of her more advanced magics, realizes at once through her fierce and clever and wise intelligence, that the slaves around herself must have a hidden master - and that she must now play a very calculating, incredibly cautious and paranoid game, if she wants to seduce and corrupt her way through these beautiful fragile things without alerting any of their true masters -

A world of Lawful Good men and women, as delicate and fragile in their own ways as the characters of the Earthtender stories, desperate to protect themselves from any hints of woe that could devastate the little and emotionally fragile happiness they possess.  They live in a world clearly advanced beyond Abrogail Thrune's own, as with many of the other outside-books, but their inner thoughts in relating to that world are strange, organized, reflective... there's hints that their entire world is run by rulers much darker than their little Lawful Good selves, though the characters themselves never suspect it and think of themselves as self-ruled and independent; they walk within a world far more regimented than Cheliax, and believe themselves to be in Galt.

Into this world enters a character remarkably like Abrogail Thrune, though she's not called that; an Outsider who, even deprived of most of her more advanced magics, realizes at once through her fierce and clever and wise intelligence, that the slaves around herself must have a hidden master - and that she must now play a very calculating, incredibly cautious and paranoid game, if she wants to seduce and corrupt her way through these beautiful fragile things without alerting any of their true masters -

A world of Lawful Good men and women, as delicate and fragile in their own ways as the characters of the Earthtender stories, desperate to protect themselves from any hints of woe that could devastate the little and emotionally fragile happiness they possess.  They live in a world clearly advanced beyond Abrogail Thrune's own, as with many of the other outside-books, but their inner thoughts in relating to that world are strange, organized, reflective... there's hints that their entire world is run by rulers much darker than their little Lawful Good selves, though the characters themselves never suspect it and think of themselves as self-ruled and independent; they walk within a world far more regimented than Cheliax, and believe themselves to be in Galt.

Into this world enters a character remarkably like Abrogail Thrune, though she's not called that; an Outsider who, even deprived of most of her more advanced magics, realizes at once through her fierce and clever and wise intelligence, that the slaves around herself must have owners - and that she must now play a very calculating, incredibly cautious and paranoid game, if she wants to seduce and corrupt her way through these beautiful fragile things without alerting any of their true masters -