"""Moontide"" by Mercedes Lackey: A woman who has been fostered out most of her life in a poorly-run, poorly supervised gigantic household, is summoned home. Her father turns out to be a wrecker-baron who makes his fortune by deliberately wrecking ships on the coast and sending his men to salvage what comes ashore. He's sent for her to cement an alliance; she, however, rather than learning proper womanly submission, has been training with the boy-squires...and tells him she is not going to marry anyone. In a fit of rage, he says that she will, and if she won't have the man he's chosen for her, she'll marry his Fool. Fine, says she, and there and then is married to the Fool, who is wise enough to play the Fool very well, and is, in fact, a magician who has infiltrated the household on the orders of the King in order to stop this wrecking business from going on.
