Honor to the Emperor

Tokh dar-Giláhn wanted nothing more than to walk around his town as one of the proud military cadets on Graduation Day, with a dashing uniform and sword. When he's snatched from the Academy by a perceptive General before he can graduate, Tokh's life begins an upward spiral toward power and glory that he never anticipated. Tokh is forced to balance his climbing military career against an explosive personal life that wants to hold him back: a wife he didn't want, sons who won't respect his will, a second wife he never intended, children younger than his grandchildren, and the accidental acquisition of his first true love, a blinded teenaged consort; a combination of women that threatens to tear everything apart. As Tokh's success on the Emperor's Emissary Project sends him ever deeper into palace politics and tenuous diplomatic relations with the Planetary Union, he starts to believe in the Emperor's treasonous vision: why shouldn't a female take the throne of Kerasím? And why shouldn't his daughter be educated to be her first advisor?