Introduction: "I might as well have been a ghost. Only deep in the abandoned underground I could find some solace. I didn't expect that it would lead me here!"A routine exploration of an abandoned tube station leads Ophelia into a strange place, one that holds only the slightest resemblance to Earth. In that new land old myths speak of visitors from another world who hold mysterious powers; a world called Byzantium, sacred to the powerful Elysian empire. In the midst of heightened tensions and political intrigue, Ophelia will cross paths with Phobos, the rebel Phrygian prince; Aegyr, the only archduke of the Elysian empire, Hyperion, the sly Chaldean merchant, and Orion, a mysterious officer serving the Elysian emperor. How will she survive in the midst of a burgeoning civil war?...