This book tells two different stories within one story. One story is about a group of Dragonlords that find out that an ancient Dragonlord has been imprisoned in a country that their country has been at war with for years. These Lords come up with a plan to free this Lord without letting the mage priest of the Phoenix know. They travel to this country and attempt to release the Dragonlord from his prison but are met with a lot of dangers on the way. The other story is the story of a concubine to the Emperor of the Phoenix. She has been the only one to bear children to the emperor. She wants to be the Empress and makes plans on how to do that. She is very intelligent and comes up with a plan on how to do that. These stories soon intertwine and come together to where both is hopefully get what each want.
This story starts out a little slow but then really picks up in the middle and the end. I love how the story jumps to different characters and what is going on to those characters at the same time. I really like how the characters are written and how the story flows. I can hardly wait to read more from this author.
