Can't Remember Title of Book?

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I am having trouble remember the title of a fantasy book I read a couple of years ago.  I remember that the title is the name of the main character and it starts with an M.

The plot involves a female assigned character who presents as a guy as part of their quest to get revenge on the person who took their best friend (because the friend was a bastard that they wanted to put in line of inheritance).  The character is taken in and trained by this creepy old man and has a romance plot with the butler who initially thinks the character is a cis guy.  The character has a faked execution because their old friend frames them for murder of the royal family's kids (because the friend wants to move up in the line of inheritance).  The character ends up with the butler and they said across the sea together.

There's a subplot about the goddess of vengeance to whom the main character swears and oath and who destroyed part of the city before.

Also the character uses a poison to make their voice sound rougher so that people take them as a guy more easily, if that helps?

charming · Accepted Answer

"Maledicte" by Lane Robins
Series: The Antyre Chronicles
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1108884.Maledicte

"After the love of her life, Janus, is stolen by Lord Last who hopes to make his bastard son heir, Miranda swears she will do anything to get him back, even pledge herself to Ani, the dead goddess of Vengeance, who may not be so dead after all, and become the ward of the lascivious old courtier Vornatti."

"... to the kingdom comes a handsome, enigmatic nobleman, Maledicte, whose perfect manners, enchanting charisma, and brilliant swordplay entice the most jaded tastes . . . and conceal a hunger beyond reckoning.

For Maledicte is actually a woman named Miranda–a beautiful thief raised in the city’s vicious slums. And she will do anything–even promise her soul to Black-Winged Ani, the most merciless of Antyre’s exiled gods–to reclaim Janus, the lover whose passion still haunts her dreams."

" Trained in all the skills of a decadent and treacherous court by the lecherous baron and his servant Gilly—and possessed by Black-Winged Ani, a bloodthirsty goddess of love and vengeance—Miranda becomes Maledicte."

" Frame-Up: Janus kills his half-brother, knowing that people will blame Maledicte for the crime."
" Sweet Polly Oliver: Played more or less straight, although Maledicte puts more effort into the transformation than most Polly Olivers. For example, he wears a waist-bulking, breast-binding corset and uses poison to lower his voice."
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/Maledicte

Pieman · Answer

"Murder Me, Murder You"?

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