A poet plans to assassinate an unpopular queen but falls in love with her instead.

Burdened by the untimely demise of the king, sad Queen Natasha is contemplating death. In the meantime, she is utterly unaware of her court's sinister machinations. When Stanislas, a suicidal anarchist poet bearing an uncanny resemblance to the late monarch, invades the royal boudoir with murder on his mind, they both fall madly in love. However, dark forces are at work. Is there a future for Natasha and Stanislas' impossible love?—Nick Riganas

Political intrigue and psychological drama run parallel. The queen is in seclusion, veiling her face for the ten years since her husband's assassination, longing to join him in death. Stanislas, a poet whose pen name is Azrael, is a suicidal anarchist, his imagination haunted into hate by longing for this queen who's drawn apart. He enters her private quarters intent on killing her then himself, but they fall in love, in part because he looks like the king. Stanislas wants her to regain political power by appearing to the public, and she tries to convince him to find hope and escape. All the while, the queen's enemies plot to keep the lovers together but to thwart their plans.—<[email protected]>