The Twin Minstrels

Or: How to Succeed in Gender Without Really Trying. Princess Emmeryn of Ylisse is being required to marry a man, despite repeatedly telling her father she's a lesbian and refusing every suitor he sends. To hopefully offset the possibility of another civil war between headstrong princess Emmeryn and her father, the reigning King Lionel, Emmeryn's good friend and loyal knight Frederick arranges another suitor, a charming young minstrel named Phobos that has a history with Emmeryn. Despite it being technically illegal, King Lionel notices nothing, and the courtship goes as planned until Emmeryn's eighteenth birthday, when the king betrays his daughter by sending Phobos on a deadly errand and introducing a suitor of his choosing in Phobos's place. After Phobos's twin, Phila, crashes the party and Emmeryn disappears into thin air, it's up to Frederick, Phobos, and Phila to find Emmeryn before King Lionel's people do. But is that the last of their bumps in the road, and what does King Lionel's deceased wife, Florence, have to do with all of this?