The Key

Empress Renée is consumed by envy and desire. Her constantly negative and irritable mood plagues her daughter with disease. Then she gets a hold of a key which unlocks a door to numerous fortunes on an island in the middle of the Coral Ocean. She believes she has been gifted an opportunity to heal her daughter once and for all. Unfortunately, this key is widely sought after by the world's most vile of criminals, and she's only been gifted its possession for time-keeping purposes. Despite warnings from fairies and miracle workers, Empress Renée is convinced that her answer to everything lies behind the door which this key opens. Will the key unlock a door to healing, or is retribution lurking beyond the threshold?

Behold: the continuing recountal of the generations following the legendary Emperor Gerardo, and the second book of The Rose Tree Chronicles.