Loyalties and alliances shift as decades-old secrets can no longer be hidden. The revelation that Emperor Loethar and his enemy King Leonel, share the same paternal royal blood rips apart previous loyalties. And Piven is found not to be a helpless orphan, as nearly all once believed.
Perhaps most shocking of all, it is discovered that the first Valisar princess to survive in centuries might also wield the famed Valisar magic.
As the empire threatens to tear itself apart former enemies must now work on the same side, and friends become the hunted to protect the imperial line.
At all costs royal blood must prevail even when it pitches Valisar against Valisar.
