She is a noblewoman who ended up as a concubine to the Tsar—yet she managed to rise to the position of an all-powerful favorite. One step away from the throne is downfall. She faces a wedding with an old man, removal from the court, and separation from her young children.
He is the former head of a guild of mercenaries, whom fate has put in a humiliating position—as a servant in the house of a noble merchant.
Neither of them knows that they are merely “actors” for an alien who was given the planet Aldan’Aan as an inheritance. The local population believes he is an all-powerful sorcerer, because they know nothing about space, other worlds, and their technologies. The villain runs a dirty game—but everything always goes unpunished.
But what will happen if the “actor” chosen to play the favorite’s lover turns out not to be who he seems? What if he figures everything out and agrees to play along, just to get close to the scoundrel who turns other people’s lives into a reality show? And what if real feelings interfere with this tangled story?
P.S. Beware—there are explicit scenes!
P.P.S. The book contains many beautiful illustrations.