In David Weber’s By Heresies Distressed, the battle for the soul of the planet Safehold has begun.

The Kingdom of Charis as well as the Kingdom of Chisholm possess joined together, pledged to stand against the tyranny of the corrupt Church. The youthful Queen Sharleyan of Chisholm provides wed King Cayleb of Charis, forging a single dynasty, an individual empire, focused on the protection of human freedom. Crowned Empress of that empire, Sharleyan provides found in Cayleb’s arms the like she hardly ever dared expect in a ‘ about By Heresies Distressed: A Novel in the Safehold Series (#3) relationship of condition.’ In Cayleb’s cause, his defiance of the ruthless Band of Four who govern mom Church, she’s found the duty to which she can commit her brain and her courage. It really is a cause for which she was born.

Yet a couple of things Sharleyan still does not find out. Secrets Cayleb is not permitted to share, despite having her. Secrets like the accurate story of humanity on Safehold. Just like the intricate web of lies, deception, and fabricated ‘religion’ which have chained mankind for almost one thousand years. Like the presence from the genocidal alien Gbaba, waiting to complete mankind’s devastation should humans ever attract their interest once more. Just like the presence of a young female, Nimue Alban, nine hundred years dead, whose center, mind, and memories live on within the android body of the warrior-monk she knows as Merlin.

Therefore Empress Sharleyan encounters the great challenge of her existence unaware of everything that job truly entails…or of the way the secrets the person who also loves her cannot share may threaten all they have achieved between them…and her own life.