Anna Comnena is the firstborn child of her father and chosen to inherit his Byzantine Empire. She has no worries when a baby brother is born because she has been training for this her entire life.
Neither the selected princess, her father, or her diplomacy instructor - her father's mother, Dowager Empress Irene - put much store in visiting envoys and their insistence that only a male heir can rule the empire. Anna and her grandmother continue her education and the princess becomes a talented statesman.
As she grows, Anna's talents soon threaten her grandmother and the Dowager Empress uses her pull with the Emperor to remove Anna from succession. When she discovers the betrayal Anna Comnena must use the skills her grandmother helped her develop in order to take back that which is her birthright.
Anna faces her grandmother, the influence of the barbarian envoys, and an ever-changing political landscape while fighting to win back her kingdom. But will she succeed, or with the political machinations take away everything she's work her entire life for?
Readers who enjoyed The Royal Diaries series will follow the fiction of Anna's story as she goes through significant life changes.
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