For over nine hundred years, the Emperor Kostimon has sat upon the Ruby Throne. He bargained with the dark gods for his immortality-and now he and his kingdom will have to pay the price.

Beginning his tenth and final life and awaiting the crowning of his empress, the aging Emperor Kostimon places the fate of the empress and the kingdom in the hands of a gladiator and former slave, Caelan E'non. Reprint.

The death of Emperor Kostimon has unleashed the dark gods upon the kingdom of Imperia—and only the Lady Elandra and the warrior Caelan have the power to save their land and people.