Valedictoria Scott and the Diplomatic Mission

Valedictoria has been hired as the executive secretarialist for three diplomats, on a daring secret mission for the Anglian government. To her surprise, one of them is her special friend Sir Anthony Harrow, personally asked to participate, by Sir Doug Cedarchest and Lady Bitsy. This assignment takes her on a journey across the Atlantic, to the Union of Columbian States of Americia. She soon finds herself a guest at the mansion of Lady Xenophilia Tingleworthy, Sir Anthony Harrow's expatriate aunt! It's a strange new land of spies and politicians, trade-unions and secret societies, fanatics and fantastic creatures, romance and treachery, and unpleasantly hot weather. Perhaps it was not the best timing for a break-up with Sir Anthony - a gentleman who could usually be counted on to step in and do a spot of rescuing, when needed! And what about Anthony's second cousin Tyrannia, who is so very certain that she is his fiancee? At least Valedictoria has two new allies and trusted advisors, in Doug and Bitsy's Scottish maids, Drusilla and Honoraria, who are not only servants, but also advanced initiates in a powerful secretive society known as the Lesbonic Order.