
Two emperors navigate an uneasy peace while a powerful trader guild does everything in its power to bring on war & as if Kelric the Skolian Imperator didn&&t have enough problems his own brother
- who happens to be a rock star of galactic proportions
- has a hit song that calls the traders out as the hidebound blueblood jerks they are & pleads for an end to centuries of war Kelric & his Eubian Trader Empire counterpart Jabriol attempt finally to meet in a public summit & sign a treaty that will save billions of lives & end the grinding millennium-long war But assassins lurk everywhere & intrigue is afoot as the baroque old order has no intention of giving up its war-bought privilege & power without a fight to the death
- & they don&&t care if they take the rest of galactic civilization down with them!