They Fought for Favor, She Claimed the Throne

Known throughout the capital for her virtue, Celia Vale accepts an imperial marriage decree binding her to Lucan Ward, a general devoted to his concubine, Lydia Ross. While Lydia and the palace women fight for favor, Celia plays the dutiful wife, turns Emperor Edric Rowan's obsession to her advantage, and clears a path toward the throne stolen from her family.