Welcome to my WOW, or HOW as I like to call it where I feature an upcoming release that I'm hyperventilating for! It's totally fun to geek out about upcoming releases! This event is hosted by the lovely Jill @ Breaking The Spine. Today's awesome-sauce pick is....

MAID OF SECRETS 
Releasing: May 1, 2013 by Simon & Schuster

Seventeen-year-old Meg Fellowes is a wry, resourceful thief forced to join an elite group of female spies in Queen Elizabeth’s Court. There she must solve a murder, save the Crown, and resist the one thing that will become her greatest freedom–and her deadliest peril. 

For Meg and her fellow spies are not alone in their pursuit of the murderer who stalks Windsor Castle. A young, mysterious Spanish courtier, Count Rafe de Martine, appears at every turn in the dark and scandal-filled corridors of the Queen’s summer palace. And though secrets and danger are Meg’s stock-in-trade, she’s never bargained on falling in love…

Why I'm Hyperventilating:
Um, guys. LOOK AT THE FREAKING PREMISE. There are thieves. Spies. FEMALE SPIES. Detectiveness. SPANISH COURTIERS. What the heck. I'm in love with this premise! UM YES U WANT IT! Wheee this is my kinda book. Action and romance in a historical setting, not to mention kick-butt girls. AYE AYE! Me likey, and I needeth this badly. It maketh me lispeth. :P Oh and did I mention the cover is freaking awesome?