The empire has survived its latest spectacle. Elissa Valeria may not.
Suspected of sabotage and under surveillance, Elissa is drawn deeper into the secrets beneath the glittering surface of The Harmonia. Then the man she loved and believed dead returns under a new identity, leading an underground network of dissidents and carrying answers about a past Elissa was never meant to remember. Even more devastating, she discovers that her brilliant husband, Theron, created the technologies that Empress Sabina is using to control the empire. Now Elissa finds herself caught in a love triangle that threatens to tear her apart.
At the same time, her young daughter is being pulled ever closer to Empress Sabina, who isn’t simply mentoring her. She is using control techniques to reshape Ari into a royal daughter of her own.
With the treacherous Prefecta Tahira Saan watching her every move, Elissa’s search for the truth takes her into Forbidden Zones and into the hidden world of the resistance. There she learns that in the empire she loves, no one goes unwatched, loyalty can be manufactured, and memory itself may belong to the state.
Every secret she uncovers puts her and her children in greater danger. Every encounter with the man she once loved threatens the life she has built with Theron.
Caught between two men, two histories, and an empire determined to control them all, Elissa must discover how much of her life is truly her own before The Harmonia decides for her.
Genre: Fantasy
Suspected of sabotage and under surveillance, Elissa is drawn deeper into the secrets beneath the glittering surface of The Harmonia. Then the man she loved and believed dead returns under a new identity, leading an underground network of dissidents and carrying answers about a past Elissa was never meant to remember. Even more devastating, she discovers that her brilliant husband, Theron, created the technologies that Empress Sabina is using to control the empire. Now Elissa finds herself caught in a love triangle that threatens to tear her apart.
At the same time, her young daughter is being pulled ever closer to Empress Sabina, who isn’t simply mentoring her. She is using control techniques to reshape Ari into a royal daughter of her own.
With the treacherous Prefecta Tahira Saan watching her every move, Elissa’s search for the truth takes her into Forbidden Zones and into the hidden world of the resistance. There she learns that in the empire she loves, no one goes unwatched, loyalty can be manufactured, and memory itself may belong to the state.
Every secret she uncovers puts her and her children in greater danger. Every encounter with the man she once loved threatens the life she has built with Theron.
Caught between two men, two histories, and an empire determined to control them all, Elissa must discover how much of her life is truly her own before The Harmonia decides for her.
Genre: Fantasy