This book is the prequel to Passion's Four Towers.

In Marchon's stables the grooms claim Kerrie rode all her lovers to their early deaths. In the guardroom the knights avow she required her lovers to spear her so often their seed spilled like blood. And in the kitchens the cooks gossip Kerrie kept her lovers on the boil so long they expired from the heat.

You may have met her daughters in Passion's Four Towers. Now meet the notorious queen herself — and the men in her life. Alexandre the rich, well-travelled merchant. Brecc the lusty Duke. Cesare the talented painter. Doran. And the delicious Farid.