The Second Son of the Duke's World Chronicle

In the Empire, the nobles are divided into numerous factions, each pushing its own people into positions of power. The imperial line has fractured, and the legitimate royal family's control over the throne is hanging by a thread. Modis has gone from a wastrel to an imperial regent who holds the lives and deaths of the powerful in his hands. Will he protect the last descendant of the legitimate royal family, or does he have other intentions...