This is the final book in C.S. Pacat's wonderfully sexy and deviously clever trilogy of gay fantasy political dramas and wow, does it deliver. Damen's identity has been revealed and he now openly heads an army with the intent of taking back Akielos from his traitorous half-brother. Riding at his side is Prince Laurent, his enemy, his lover, and his strongest ally. The soldiers of Vere and Akielos are with them but the Regent has taken the capital and has deeper schemes than even Laurent knows. This book had me by turns frustrated as hell and giggling with delight. The final confrontation had double agents, admissions of treason, betrayal, murder, revenge, leaps of faith- everything I wanted.