This contest winning fanfiction was featured on Jennifer A. Nielsen's blog. A series of interconnected short stories following the lives of King Jaron, Tobias Branch, Princess Amarinda, Queen Imogen and Captain Roden Harlowe. Set three years after the events of The Shadow Throne, this series will features a wide array of headcanons, original characters, and fan developed ideas. A companion titled The Thieves' Court, is in progess.

Ariabella Cossette Smith (or Nikki Maria Cook) is an undercover CIA agent who is sent to Clearwater High School to pretend to be a seventeen year old girl and find out what is being smuggled across state lines. But when she meets her English teacher, who makes her feel things she's never felt before, will she fall for him? Can she tell him the truth and risk blowing her mission and possibly put herself in danger?