In legends, the Rolling Star River lies between mortals and their dreams. Whatever happens on earth between men and women—life and death, glory and joy, sorrow and the end of sorrow—the stars do not change. Except for the occasional comet that sometimes appears briefly, very bright, then dims and then disappears. Just like the people who once lived on this ancient land - rulers and peasants, poets and warriors, heroes and traitors. But some of them, having sailed away forever along the sparkling heavenly river, found new life in legends and songs. The history of the origin of one such song is in front of you...

The Celestial Empire series, book two