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Theodora Norton spent her entire life suffering because of her unfaithful husband. Before her death, she made one final promise to her daughter. ‘I have prepared everything so that you will never have to live as I did.’ Theodora claimed that, on Eugenie’s twenty-fourth birthday, not merely one but several perfect men would appear for her, and with those final words, she passed away. Eugenie dismissed it as nothing more than the bitter ramblings of a woman who had endured her husband’s endless affairs. That was until her father brought home a new wife, Agatha, and her daughter, Apolline, almost immediately after Theodora’s funeral. Six years later, Eugenie’s father dies as well. Then, on the day Eugenie turns twenty-four, Agatha and Apolline threaten to seize her entire inheritance. Just as all seems lost, five of the most famous and seemingly perfect men in the Empire arrive before Eugenie, exactly as her mother promised. Alfred, the heir to a southern admiral’s family, who has always treated Eugenie like his own little sister. Percival, the Grand Duke of the North and the Empire’s greatest war hero. Cassius, a younger man who runs a rather suspicious business. Magnus, Eugenie’s former Academy rival and a renowned patron of the arts. And Carter Livingston, her childhood friend, who knows everything there is to know about Eugenie and has inherited the capital’s prestigious clerical office. Thus, Eugenie Norton, once an ordinary postgraduate student of the Empire, takes five of its most celebrated men as her husbands, and begins writing an entirely new chapter in imperial history.