Two emperors navigate an uneasy peace, while a powerful trader guild doeseverything in its power to bring on war. And as if Kelric, the SkolianImperator, didn't have enough problems, his own brother — who happens tobe a rock star of galactic proportions — has a hit song that calls thetraders out as the hidebound blueblood jerks they are, and pleads for an end tocenturies of war. Kelric and his Eubian Trader Empire counterpart, Jabriol,attempt finally to meet in a public summit and sign a treaty that will savebillions of lives and end the grinding, millennium-long war. But assassins lurkeverywhere, and intrigue is afoot as the baroque old order has no intention ofgiving up its war-bought privilege and power without a fight to the death— and they don't care if they take the rest of galactic civilization downwith them!

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