After her father rebelled against the empress, Denise was taken from home to become one of the redhead's many concubines. It was the punishment against her father – that his heir would give birth to the children of the futa he dared to fight against. Denise thought she would suffer. Over the years that followed, as she waited for the other woman to claim her, she dreaded it. And then it happened, and it was unlike anything she had experienced. In the empress's arms, she came to find love and purpose and happiness.