Broken Oaths & Boundaries

<p>Is a walled and locked Residence a palace or a prison? It depends on who holds the keys.</p><p>When the Holy Remoran Empire decided that the Emperor's younger son would marry the heir of the Duke of uncanny Traventi Childe Silvia saw Leon-Alexander as a fine man and marriage as preferable to war.</p><p>With her Prince dead Silvia and her 3 young children are trapped at the Emperor's court far from her homeland disdained and oppressed by officials who view the Marriage Contract as a cheap tool of conquest while scanting their own promises. The courtiers fear no reprisals for oath-breaking.</p><p>For the Elderkin of Traventi descended from eldritch creatures Oaths join the Worlds' foundations and oath-breaking is no safer than breaking rocks at the base of a cliff inviting cosmic rupture.</p><p>The warnings of Silvia's younger son the Notary and seer Franz-Karl become more urgent as Contract breakage and other villainy continues unmended and news of disaster spreads.</p><p>Will reforms avert the looming calamity? Or will it all end in tears?</p><p>368 pages</p>