Secret love and forbidden liaisons mix with the deadly implications of the enemy's plans in this sensual story of danger, passion and intrigue with the exotic allure of 1001 Arabian Nights. Betrothed to the ineffectual son of the evil Empress of Karseed ia, Elishiba's planned marriage is to be a symbolic pact sealed between two neighboring countries. But nothing is as it seems. Elshiba finds herself enmeshed in a growing web of political machinations with magic and romance weaving their own vibrant and inexora ble threads; her love for a man considered an enemy may place her in further jeopardy.