A novel of tremendous scope, lots of characters, and epic resolutions, the story about Chancellor Nishiko Kitamori and the unprecedented challenges she faces also developed partly from watching real political events unfold during 2008-2013. Book III shows us much more detail about the future we glimpsed in Books I and II. As with the previous books, there is a love story running throughout the book, but also, the surprising completion of the overall love story making up the heart of the trilogy ties the three books together even more.