Part of the City by the Flowers series:
- A Poet, A Prince
- In Life, In Death
- A Coward, A Warrior
- In Pain, In Pleasure
Prince Ahmiki knows that he’s useless in comparison to his brothers. He refuses to marry, he can’t help with governing, and he doesn’t want to be a priest. All he does is waste time with poetry and song.
Things change after an encounter with a strange young man, and the tragedy that befalls the family soon after.
A Poet, A Prince is a 10k prequel story to In Life, In Death, about Ahmiki’s youth and how he finds the conviction he needs to become a man.