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Being first in line to the throne, Song Xun had gotten used to having a target on his back. Upon his return home from a two year assignment at the northern border, his younger brothers soon realized that their normally studious and quiet brother had suddenly grown up into a calm, yet-capable man. The arrows no longer came close to their mark. The poison tea was left untouched on its tray. And any assassins that were sent to his pavilion were never seen again. Right when they thought that their older brother no longer had any gaps in his armor, a little, fuzzy weakness suddenly showed up one cold rainy day...

Book 2 for The Silent Guard. It only took one month for everything to begin falling apart. Yuen Shui, the new, if reluctant, emperor of Han, is just beginning to learn the ins and outs of court life after having been a military general for most of his life. He knows that there are still quite a few men still loyal to his father lurking about in the shadows, but as one of the traps he'd laid previously in his former home, the Fleeting Ice pavilion, is tripped, he comes face to face with someone, and something, he wasn't expecting.

Sometimes, words are not necessary. Zen has been mute since the day he was born. Having grown up unwanted and on the streets, he unexpectedly found himself a hero in the prince of his country, Qi. The man had appeared when other children had been throwing stones at him, trying to drive him from the safety of the town's protective walls. Qi ends up saving him, and as thanks, Zen decided to dedicate his life to protecting his master. Years later, as tensions begin to rise with one of their much-larger neighboring countries, he finds himself and his master thrown into unfamiliar territory, both physically, and mentally.