Darkness may come and it may be long. The civil war between the Court of White Rose and the revolutionist Reds has raged on for a decade, leaving the throne bankrupt and the tsardom on its last legs. Prince Alexander, the youngest in the family of royal white witches, is only nineteen and infatuated with a danseur of the Grand Theater. He yearns for peace and dreams of freedom from obligations to his father. But when the...