Former headmistress of Sonora Academy. Lucinda Marnett was approaching her seventy-seventh birthday and still going strong. Well, perhaps strong is the wrong word. Stubbornly. Mentally unbalanced by something her author mentioned at some point that I can't recall at the moment, and yet still a genius at charms she led her school onwards, helped by the capable and steady Manfred Bulla.

In more recent times, her unbalanced ways have put her on the outs with the S.A., the group that originally pulled the strings that got her appointed to the Headmistresship of Sonora, and it turns out that there are consequences...