Overview

A boy of the night-time streets. A girl of libraries and learning. Druisius, the son of a merchant, is sixteen when an order from his father that he can neither forgive nor forget drives him from home and into the danger and intrigue of the military. Eudekia, a scholar's daughter, educated and dutiful, is not meant to be a prince's bride. In a empire at war, and in a city beset by famine and unrest, she must prove herself worthy of its throne. A decade after a first, brief meeting, their lives intersect again. When a delegation arrives from the lost West, asking Eudekia for sanctuary for a princess and support for a desperate war, Druisius is assigned to guard them. In the span of a few weeks, a young captain will capture the hearts of both Empress and soldier in very different ways, offering a future neither could have foreseen. A stand-alone novel that can also serve as a second entry point into the Empire's Legacy series.

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'Heroes are sometimes hidden in the shadows. A dangerous world of seduction and intrigue...the storytelling is gripping...the dialogue as keen as an assassin's blade.' Alistair Tosh, author of Siege 'Thorpe writes with a simple elegance... with vivid world building and political intrigue. History and fantasy in perfect harmony, with characters so believable you'd think they once walked the world.' Jonathan Nevair, author of the Wind Tide trilogy 'Thorpe's writing is excellent. Her characters are sharply drawn, and fully believable, and although Casil and its environs are fictional, there has been so much research and world building done that I never question that this is a real place, with real people and a real history - simply a world I haven't yet learned about.' Karen Heenan, author of The Tudor Court series.

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After two careers as a research scientist and an educator, Marian L Thorpe decided it was time to do what she'd always really wanted, and be a writer. As well as her novels, she's published short stories and poetry. Her life-long interest in Roman and post-Roman European history provided the inspiration for her books, while her other interests in landscape archaeology and birding provide background.

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