Politics is a dirty business, and Prince Tor, a young aristocrat of the New Russian Empire, kept his distance from it. But fate has its own plans. When a conspiracy is organized against the emperor, the emperor’s life is in Tor’s hands. And even if, until recently, the prince considered himself an orphan, not knowing that the most powerful man in the state is his grandfather; even if he has no warm feelings for the emperor, he cannot leave him to the mercy of fate and enters the battle.