I think at some point in their lives every girl has wanted to be a princess. Unfortunately after while you realise that most princesses, don't really get to do very much cool stuff. In fact was quite often the prince, the knight, the x male hero that did all the exciting stuff and the princess is a bit disappointing in comparison.

I think this is the first book in about 20 years about princesses that hasn't induced optic nerve damaging levels of eye rolling.

This book follows Miriam. Miriam is a tech journalist, or at least she is before rapidly getting fired at the start of the book, who discovers that she is a member of an Ruling Class of a world that she can travel to buy staring at a locket that used to belong to her mother (think the Long Earth, but sort of mediaeval). Of course in Keeping with all good princess stories our protagonist doesn't know she it is a princess at the start her mother having been stabbed in mysterious circumstances, resulting in her being adopted as an orphan.

The story follows her trying to get to grips with this new world and the political intrigue but is within it and also trying to stay alive from Assassin's bombs, swords, and guns all sort of other danger in this new world.

I liked this a lot. You should read it.