The Greatest Battle of Your Life
- does not take place on the fields outside the Persian kingdom. It is in his bed, and for three days it will be yours, before the proclamation that emptied the streets of your friends and childhood memories sweeps you onto the carpet and straight through the doors of the sullied and bloodied throne room.
The most important person in your life has plans to kill you. It will be your clever wit, your sharp tongue that will act as a buffer between the eternal sleep on pillows and the guillotine which follows.
And you are here to save more than one soul. Here to win the heart of a great nation and to return the living, beating heart to a king who has forgotten what it is like to be a man. For days and years, you have waited for this matrimonial moment under the polished moon with your hand underneath his - and you think, as you hear the holy man spread the words of ill-gotten promises of fair marriage, what your future will look like in the morning.