During a chance meeting, Princess Asché shares an unforgettable kiss with Ethan, the second prince of a nearby empire. Years later, Asché’s brother arranges a marriage that will force her to become the Emperor’s ninth wife. Rather than suffer in a loveless union, Asché poisons her brother, and is imprisoned in the palace for her crime. But as revolution stirs, Ethan, now an anti-imperial rebel, suddenly reappears in her bedroom, and a steamy romance fraught with political implications begins.