Parlay. Trial of the Ornic, #1

(This book originally appeared as The Baker's Wife: Part One, and was also the first part of the first volume of Trial of the Ornic, The Baker's Wife.) In a world where magic is restricted by trade, on pain of death, one woman must escape the confines of her world or die a slow death within it. Krysilla Gillasin wants to believe there's more to life than work. Every night she goes to bed exhausted, and every day is a blur of activity in the bakery.
A bakery her husband no longer helps her run. But what she longs for is forbidden to a baker's wife: the feel of opening locks without a paid-for keyspell and a life no longer tethered to the ovens. She keeps these desires locked away, her own little secret in a world that seems to give nothing in return. However, when a feverish minstrel stumbles into her life and her husband tells her to send him away, Krysilla, for the first time, defies her husband's orders. But she soon learns the handsome minstrel has plans that go beyond music, plans that include the secrets locked within the chambers of a noble.
And her own house. When she finds herself drawn into his schemes, she finds her world is not what she thought it was. Will she stay in her place? Or take the freedom he offers, even if means her death? Full of adventure, with a dash of romance, Parlay is the first book in the epic fantasy series, Trial of the Ornic.