.After nearly two years, eighteen-year-old Nate returns home to the family empire ruled by his father – the ruthless Wildenstern Patriarch. But Nate’s life is soon shattered by his brother’s death, and the Rules of Ascension, allowing the assassination of one male family member by another, means he’s being blamed. He knows that he is not the murderer, but who is? With the aid of his troublesome sister-in-law, Daisy, and his cousin Gerald, he means to find out.