"We need money to care for your ailing mother — so please take a position at the royal palace!" When her father said those words to her one day, the earl's daughter Muriel flatly refused. After all, she's a homebody who struggles with social interaction and spends all her time buried in books. Working at the royal palace? Absolutely impossible! — or so she thought, until her father suggested the position of palace librarian. That she might actually be able to manage, so Muriel heads off for her ...
