The Ladies Guide to Lost Realms

Gwaeddan Nesta Anne Maddocks is a 25 year old unmarried woman in the year 1838, in the Kingdom of Kracabia, on the continent Teichicora, on planet Ivaturn. While she would much prefer to spend her time reading about how the world works; her parents, two older and one younger brother all long to see her married off. There's a law in the Kingdom of Kracabia, if one wanted to continue to receive massive cuts on their taxes one's daughters must be married by twenty-six and if one does not have daughters one's eldest son must produce an heir that lives to the age of three by the time the eldest son is thirty-five. So says Her Royal Highness Queen Liliwen Gwyn Pendry.

Much to Gwen's (a nickname given to her by her lifelong ladies maid when she couldn't pronounce her own name) surprise and delight, she finds herself stumbling through the wrong door. Or is it the right one? When she slips out of a party after her dress makes her skin itch like it's on fire and the music makes her brain feel like it's shrinking, she opens a mysterious door that leads her into an unknown land, seemingly in the future and teeming with magic.