Book Description
A peaceful and melancholic nobleman is summoned from his routine duties to an unusual diplomatic visit; he finds unexpected love, fights for honor, and everything suddenly changes for his future and that of his kingdom. Faced with an increasingly hostile situation, he looks to help the lives that intertwine with his own, because they seem more likely to be spared; whatever's coming, his responsibilities put him in the thick of it. His fate is uncertain, but this is the story of everyone for whom he fights and how they choose to remember him.