Dimitri Alexeyev used to be the Tzar of Novo-Svitsevo. Now, he is in exile. Having lost a civil war against his ex-husband, Alexey Balakin, Dimitry has become a shadow of who he used to be. When the last members of his beloved court come up with a plan to take his country back, Dimitri must put his heart on the line by sending his spymaster, Vasily Sokolov, back into Alexey’s court under a false identity... while Dimitri finds a way to kill his ex-husband for good. But stopping Alexey is not so easy as plotting to kill an ordinary man. Through dark perversions, Alexey has resurrected himself into an immortal, indestructible body — and now wants nothing more than to drown the country in blood.