Jake has married his emperor, but happily ever after is for fairy tales. The empire is restless. The nobility isn't hiding their distaste for Jake, the unclass who married the emperor. The unclass see him as proof that they can be more, and they're not going to sit by and wait any longer. And someone is trying to kill Jake. As friends become enemies, and enemies become allies, Jake has to discover the catalyst that has his world cascading into chaos, and protect those he loves, even the ones he doesn't know about yet. And he has to do it before the empire comes crashing down...or the assassin...

Jake has finally found peace and a family with the man he loves. But when the unimaginable happens, Jake finds himself on the run with his greatest enemy and the man who betrayed them both. If he can't find a way to bring down the man who now wields the power of an emperor, he'll lose not just his own life, but his daughter's as well.