The Hundredth Night

Princess Pingyang has crossed the palace at midnight ninety-nine times to reach Zhuge Changsu, the white-robed chancellor the court whispers about. After the hundredth night, he has promised to leave for good. The emperor, deaf to warnings from the northern border, lets the rival minister Qin Lang strip Changsu of the military tally and fill the treasury with a new palace. / Then the northern cavalry crosses the pass, the grain stores prove empty, and the only man who saw the war coming is the one the court calls a usurper. Pingyang must decide whether to save the throne that fears her lover or the lover who may already be lost.