Princess' search for love, but she finds happiness in staying true to herself and in becoming master of her own destiny.
Princess Mei Li is led to believe that she is marrying the young dashing King of Temasek. She sails to Palembang to find the King of Palembang, Bintan and Temasek is an elderly man. Will she bow to her King or will she run away to find her love? Thus begins a journey that will lead to the fall of an Empire, and the rise of a new one.
Never before has a woman amassed such power in the South Seas. This begs the question, is her happiness defined by whom she loves? Or by whom she marries? Or by what she achieves?
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When he plunged his silver Kris into the heart of the Majapahit captain, Parameswara fulfilled his divine destiny.
He was mentally prepared to see the captain’s face distended, curiously, in surprise. But he was ill prepared for the fountain of blood that sprayed onto his eyes, his nose and his lips. It was Majapahit blood that he spat out of his lips with great vengeance, Majapahit blood that was shed, to appease the royal spirit of the Srivijaya Empire. He turned his eyes to his maternal grand-uncle.
Ananggavarman, the Majapahit Governor, flinched from the angry spirit that possessed his grand-nephew. He was short and stout. But he made up for his height by sporting a large golden dome that towered radiantly above his head. Quailing before the blood thirsty eyes of his cousin nephew, he retreated behind his ornate teak table. He waved his trembling hands in front of his round head gear, as if he was warding off the divine spirit that had bid its time on Seguntang Hill – until now.
Outside, there were soldiers everywhere in Palembang. King Wira had completed his coup d’etat against his Governor.
Parameswara was a youthful looking man in his thirties, when he made his first kill.
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