Designer of Death

For the past twenty-five years, Emperor Ronan changes wives every month—but none of them has been able to give him what he wants—a heir.

Esmeralda, like many before her, didn’t want to become the spouse of a bloody usurper, but refuse him was impossible.

All she can pray for is not to get pregnant by the tyrant and to have an easy death in a month. But life has its own plans—and so does Death.