War breaks out after Emperor Kostimon dies, and his young widow, Elandra, and her lover, Caelan, escape the darkness and chaos only to discover that the emperor might still be alive, forcing her to choose love or take her place on the throne. Original.
Deborah Chester is a full-time tenured professor at the University of Oklahoma writing program. She is also a graduate of the program, and her first published novel--a YA historical romance--was done as her student project. She has been writing science fiction and fantasy for Ace books for close to twenty years, sometimes pseudonymously.