A librarian with a deep hatred for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Shona McMonagle has been recruited into a time-travel agency led by the headmistress of her alma mater and sent on a solo mission in 19th Century Russia. Trouble is, she has no instructions on what her mission will be (only the vague directive that "it will be clear"), no idea what year it is, and only a week to accomplish her mission. Despite that, Shona manages to immediately insert herself into the aristocracy and convince everyone that she's a princess from Scotland.
Shona is a great character with plenty of hilarious flaws — she uses her encyclopedia knowledge to narrow down the year, her martial arts skills to fight off attackers, and her "acute sense of hearing" to sense that someone is coming down the hall, but is somehow oblivious to the big, honking, lights-flashing kind of clues dropped by everyone around her. I'd love to see more of her adventures in the future.
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