(Read Book 1: Blood Rider first! This is the second book of the series.) The war with the Queen of Linos is over, and Eli is content in the land of elves, believing that her life can finally make some sense. But after the kings of both lands announce that Eli and some of the others will be travelling to the continent...
When Daiyu is summoned with dozens of other girls to be the Emperor's concubine, she doesn't think that she'll be chosen. Although beautiful and kind, she's hardly qualified to be with the emperor, whose name is stained with blood and whose reputation is blacker than sin. When she accidentally catches the eye of Emper...
"I love you" She whispered as they pulled apart. "You can't. you shouldn't," He tells her, with the restrain he could muster. "And yet, I do" *** *** In a world...