Eugene Norton grows up watching her mother, Theodora, suffer due to her father’s infidelity. Before dying, her mother leaves behind a strange promise—that on Eugene’s 24th birthday, she will be given not one, but several “perfect men.” Years later, after both parents are gone and Eugene is on the verge of losing her inheritance to her stepmother and half-sister, five of the empire’s most powerful and exceptional men appear before her—just as promised. From a southern admiral’s noble son, a northern grand duke and war hero, a mysterious young businessman, a former rival turned patron, to a childhood friend turned high priest—Eugene suddenly finds herself bound to five extraordinary men. Once an ordinary graduate student, she is now at the center of the empire, beginning to carve out a new history with her five husbands.
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