When Twilight Sparkle returns to Canterlot from Equestria's frontier, the unicorn finds out just how much fashions can change. For one thing, her old friend Rarity Belle is now an alicorn.
Rarity has Antisocial Personality Disorder again. That wouldn’t be a problem if she hadn’t ran somebody over with a stolen police car today. Furthermore, there’s still the matter of her and Sci-Twi’s relationship to salvage...
Twilight didn’t know what to say. How easy it sounded, to just not think about things that hurt, but thoughts were all she had. Thoughts were the only thing that were hers, for better or worse.
The married life was supposed to be perfect. When Twilight's turns out to be anything but, she doesn't know what to do. Then she sees an ad in the newspaper...
In a world of snakes and ladders, Rarity has had to learn a single, simple fact: It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single mare who desires fame and success must, without a doubt, be a social-climbing bitch.