When the Makololo conquer the once-proud Luyana kingdom, Princess Kacana is offered as a peace bride—a quiet symbol of surrender to the newly crowned King Tau, a man known more for strategy than sentiment.
But Kacana is no ordinary wife.
Hidden behind her soft dresses and calm gaze is a fierce falconer trained in silence, discipline, and ancestral wisdom. She says little. She watches everything. And when the palace underestimates her, she builds her power in the shadows—one flight, one strategy, one act of mercy at a time.
What begins as a fragile truce between conqueror and captive slowly burns into a love story layered with political intrigue, betrayal, ambition, and the building of a dynasty that will reshape the empire.
This Expanded Edition presents the complete, fully realized novel, combining and substantially expanding the original Court of Falcons short stories into a single definitive work.