About the book: year / On the feast of St. Colombain, a young man dressed as a golden Cupid appeared at a masquerade in the royal palace of Saint-Marco, and the next morning he was found dead in southern slums of the city. Since the king's officer for special assignments, Honore de Laporte, was hiding under the golden mask, young Joan, shocked by the death of his close associate, instructs Baron Marc de Segur, a secret police officer, to investigate this case. To uncover the cause of the death of the young aristocrat, Mark will have to understand the intrigues and intricacies of the unspoken competition between beautiful and well-born maidens for the right to become the king’s bride, and also uncover an old crime, the victim of which another knight fell under similar circumstances. The nine-tailed fox Lee Jin Ho helps him in the investigation again..