2024/160: Winter's Orbit — Everina Maxwell

2024/160: Winter's Orbit — Everina Maxwell

“The palace revoked your clearance and you don’t even know why. On top of that, your partner dies—might have been killed—and Internal Security can’t even get themselves together long enough to give you the right data about it. And you can’t complain to your family because the palace says that you need clearance to do even that ..." [p. 143]

Prince Kiem, whose grandmother is the Emperor of the seven-planet Iskat Empire, is ordered by her to marry his dead cousin's partner, Count Jainan, who happens to be the diplomatic representative for the planet Thea. Kiem, who's something of a scandal magnet, didn't know his cousin Taam well, and he's never met the presumably-grieving Jainan. But, as the Emperor says, someone has to marry Jainan ( Read more... )