About the book: 2019 / What should a young girl do without the protection of her family in an Empire where men rule? Where a girl is a thing and can be treated as such. Having miraculously escaped rape and found support in the person of her younger brother, Riana is not left alone. And they put her before a difficult choice: to become a Slave of Passion, to be sold to a foreign Kingdom, or to end up on a ritual table, after which only a few survive. But it’s not her choice…