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Angie Dickinson spins a delightful new tale with colorful yarn from Ella Enchanted and Spy School, planted firmly in the ethos of a Victorian world.
—Lorehaven review, 2025

Truth Cursed

Cressida is selected to join a mission to infiltrate the kingdom’s royal court. She has been thrown unceremoniously into a world of ball gowns and espionage.
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Speaking the truth can be a dangerous thing.

Cressida Hoth is alone in the world. Orphaned and unwanted, she is inflicted with a peculiar curse by her mischievous aunts and banished to a finishing school in the secluded kingdom of Dernmont. Students train in every accomplishment suitable for young ladies: music, dancing, etiquette … and strangely, poison-making, fencing, and lock-picking.

The school is a front for a rebel spy ring, and when her training is complete, Cressida is selected to join a mission to infiltrate the kingdom’s royal court. She has been thrown unceremoniously into a world of ball gowns and espionage, but she is still under a curse, and it threatens to expose them all.

Defending her teammates and her secret, Cressida discovers that the kingdom’s buried history and the truth behind her curse run far deeper than she imagined.

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Review of Angie Dickenson’s Truth Cursed

Angie Dickinson spins a delightful new tale with colorful yarn from Ella Enchanted and Spy School, planted firmly in the ethos of a Victorian world.
· March 2025

Cressida cannot imagine a worse curse for her job—always being forced to tell the truth. But that’s what happened after she drank the wrong sort of tea. Now, after years of training at her elite finishing school, her instructors send her with a team to infiltrate the royal family. How then can Cressida keep her secret without lying? Angie Dickinson spins a delightful new standalone tale using colorful yarn from Ella Enchanted and Spy School, woven with the ethos of a Victorian world. Truth Cursed transitions from a spy-academy book to palace intrigue while exploring themes of trust and responsibility in this fast read for young adult readers.

Best for: Fans of academy books or political intrigue with light romance themes.

Discern: Emotional abuse by authority figures, mild violence in sword fights.

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