Three Kingsmen in the Royal Court

Taryn Eliade, the Dragonprince's heir, has ended up in a bit of a predicament. He bought his parents' lives with a terrible promise to a corrupt king, and now he must live out the rest of his days as a hostage within the confining walls of the Royal Palace of the FirstKing.

As far as prisons go, it's not bad. And Taryn's not alone there. His girlfriend Jen is a secret ninja warrior, and his valet (and bodyguard) Toman is, too. And even though the king's croneys are proper villains, they're old and arrogant and distracted by the same courtly nonsense the king is always obsessing over.

He's not in danger. He's not alone. He's not even uncomfortable. Yet his captivity is crushing him for one reason above all else:

He's bored out of his mind.

But that's before Jen finds a bomb in the warehouse district and the king's physician goes missing. When the cultists start drawing pentagrams on musty basement floors, things really start moving.