Malik Leviticus is beset with multiple crises on his first day of ascending as the Levi Empire leader-all of them dealing with women. Facing him when he returns from his father's last rites is a bitter step-mother insisting his brother be sent to the other side of New Camelot and her nephew be given a prestigious post. A beautiful young noblewoman arrives and stands before him terrified of the rumors she's heard about him. Her father offered up Lady...