The Emperor died. Long live the Emperor! But who will ascend to the vacated throne? Arriving in the capital of the Empire, Captain Glenard of the Secret Guard suddenly finds himself drawn into a bloody and cruel game around the empty throne. Fights and chases, crimes and investigations, intrigues and scandals, agreements and betrayals, the luxury of palaces and the dirt of slums, the ice of death and the flames of passion - everything is mixed up in the labyrinth of capital streets filled with dangers, into which the second volume of the Glenard Saga plunges us. once suggested by the author