It is the year 1985 ET. House Virasana has fallen, the Lotus Throne stands empty, and a bitter succession war has every noble House up in arms. To make things worse, House Tô-Genji and House Medina are locked in a vicious feud over a flood of cheap illicit drugs tearing their worlds apart.
Prince Li Lan Tô-Genji is as far from the fighting as one can be. Third son of the Duke of Qufu, Li Lan is the family scholar and kept behind palace walls to preserve tradition, etiquette, and history. Brilliant, restless, and quietly furious at a life chosen for him, he steals what little freedom he can.
Sir Wilhelm Grebenstein arrives with a delegation seeking the Duke's support for the Grebenstein claimant to the Lotus Throne. An expert swordfighter and genuine hero, he is not much taken with the dirty business of politics, but rather with the brilliant and resourceful third son of the Duke…
Then, Sir Saïd, a dashing Medina knight, is taken prisoner and exhibited in the castle of Li Lan's father, awaiting an uncertain fate. Yet Li Lan finds him to be an honourable, passionate warrior and both are deeply intrigued by each other.
Saving Saïd would be treason. Leaving him would be complicity. Forced into an impossible choice, Li Lan and Wilhelm help Saïd escape. The three flee together, lighting a fuse that will reshape the Virasana Empire. Hunted across a realm in upheaval, they'll have to fight for their lives, for their love, and the reckless hope of an Empire actually worth fighting for.
A swashbuckling, queer throuple romance set in the beloved Virasana Empire universe, this standalone space-opera adventure by award-winning authors Beryll and Osiris Brackhaus blends passion, peril, hope, and humour with just the right amount of heat.
