I should've known peace would never come easy.

Settling into civilian life at Stoneway Academy was supposed to be the hard part. Now, with finals behind me and a sprawling new manor to share with the witches I love most, I figured I'd earned a little quiet. A bigger bedroom. Maybe even a summer where nobody tries to blow up the school, drag me to hell, or end the world.

That'd be the day.

Someone's been planting stories about me in every paper in Caldia—painting me as the next great political hope whether I like it or not. My stolen manuscript just hit the bidding block. The previous owner of our new home was a brilliant, paranoid researcher who died under deeply suspicious circumstances, and the secrets buried in his study reach further across the border than anyone wants to admit. To make matters worse, my sweet rabbit-girl has just been recalled to Auropa, and we both know what kind of "debriefing" might be waiting for her if she goes.

Between a vampire professor with a possessive streak, a princess ready to declare war on her neighbors over a peace flag, and a familiar who has never once said anything modest, my harem has its hands full. But shadowy cabals, foreign intelligence services, and whoever's pulling the strings of the Caldian press are about to learn what every Auropan soldier already knows.

There's a reason they used to call me the Free States' deadliest weapon.

And weapons don't make good politicians.