THE ORCHID HUNTS BACK

Diplomat-spymaster Ilyra discovers a cultivated fungal plague inside the living palace of Petalspire. The only route to the cure requires a color-matched marriage with Soren, the general who once burned her homeland but secretly saved its next generation. Their public emotions become evidence as they hunt the priesthood behind the rot.

A mantid diplomat uncovers poison inside her living palace, then learns the general she hates has been chosen to become her husband.