To challenge the Empire is to challenge Death... The Queen Uniting the Five Kingoms against the Taavi Empire was always a risk. But Tamar didn't expect the Empire to take its revenge only on Redwood. And she certainly didn't expect the Empress to make such an impossible demand: for Runo to return to Raulinna before the month is over. The Assassin Runo knows how the Empress's personal enemies die - slowly...