Overview

Heavy is the hand that swings the blade in this MM court romance for fans of Captive Prince and A Knight’s Tale.

A slave has nothing, not even a name—or so believed the slave in holding cell #33, until he was whisked away from the upcoming auction in a suspicious, pre-empt sale to a cherubic young man in glittering finery named Isaac. In a world where slaves suffer and die without consequence to their keepers, what horrors did Isaac have in mind that he felt the need to hide?

Isaac reveals that he isn’t just rich, he’s royalty—and he wants to kill the king. Though not inclined to lose his head on the executioner's block, our narrator is won over by the allure of a future without slavery… Sleeping with Isaac is just a perk.

Their affair swings from the palace kitchens, to the jousting arena, to the throne room, creeping ever closer to the king himself, forcing the lovers into ever riskier—and risque—positions. But can true love exist in the absence of freedom? And can a slave conditioned only to obey ever have what it takes to seize not only the course of his own fate—but an entire kingdom’s?