Lord Cassia is taken prisoner, while a plague sweeps over the land. Three years later, he wants only to return to his home. Meanwhile, his home has changed, and an assassin has targeted the queen.

Mirage, triumphant in her coup of the Amber Empire, returns to the palais prepared to take her place as Empress. With support of her friends and a blossoming romance with Sunder, Mirage is on the cusp of taking hold of everything she has wanted. When the Empress Severine's body is recovered from the battle, she is not dead, but in a coma-- and she still represents a threat to Mirage's power. Worse, a distant cousin, Gavin d'Ars, Duc de Douane, appears...

"Adolf Hitler's Nazi party is gaining strength and becoming more menacing every day. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a pastor upset by the complacency of the German church toward the suffering around it, forms a breakaway church to speak out against the established political and religious authorities. When the Nazis outlaw the church, he escapes as a fugitive. Struggling to reconcile his faith and the teachings of the Bible with the Nazi Party's evil agenda,...