Crowned in Cinnabar

Princess Nadira of Veyra arrives in Li beneath a red veil and the weight of a treaty. With silver-white hair and mismatched eyes, she is quickly branded an omen, a foreign threat, and the Emperor's mysterious new bride.

Nadira expects a political marriage. She does not expect an Emperor who listens when she speaks-or a rear palace where gifts carry warnings, kindness hides ambition, and even medicine may conceal poison.

When Maomao is drawn into the strange incidents surrounding the foreign bride, Nadira must decide whom she can trust before the court chooses her fate for her. In a palace where affection can become leverage and a crown can resemble a cage, surviving the marriage may prove far harder than entering it.