When Prince Braxton departs Vienna,following a night of debauchery dressed in gold as the ancient God of War, Mars. He leaves behind a tangle of threats, promises, and compromised nobles, his trading empire intact. Or is it? Braxton's larger-than-life wheelings and dealings take him from Russia to Japan, Hong Kong, and India. But it's sucking every ounce of Braxton's being from within. Continue your journey of history's most dynamic century as Prince Braxton tears through life on his own terms. When life forces him to decide his path, what and who will he choose? This second volume of four scorches a trail spanning from 1860 to 1884. The entire saga features a century of world wars and engineering marvels that one might recognize with requited and unrequited love, romances that defy social mores, death, revolutions, and espionage that casts this tale into one that could have been had Prince Braxton been real.