About the Book
Title: The Scorpion’s Empress
Author: Yoshiyuki Ly
Genre: Erotic Romance
After years of serving a corrupt government, Ser Videl, an idealistic
paladin, learns that her younger sister is tangled in a dark scheme against Raj
Mangala, the compassionate yet troubled empress of the city’s oppressed
lowtown; the two women meet and are deeply drawn to one another, finding a
shared sanctuary in their violently-divided city. The Scorpion’s Empress is
intimately written through the eyes of both twenty-seven year old women.
Videl’s loving devotion is just what Raj craves, but Raj is wary of
letting her guard down while protecting her throne. Determined to prove her
worth, Videl chases after Raj and works to unravel the mystery of the plots against
the empress. Raj wants Videl to serve her emotional and sexual needs, and the
two explore a meaningful relationship of dominance and submission that delves
fully into their deepest wants. When the conspiracy against Raj comes to a
head, Videl’s loyalties are tested when she is forced to choose between her
past and her empress.
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Author Bio
Yoshiyuki Ly was born
in San Diego, CA. She lived there until moving away to college. In high school,
she began writing fanfiction as a serious hobby. Her pen name is representative
of her multiracial heritage and a unique, diverse outlook that is reflective in
her work. While pursuing an undergraduate degree in philosophy, she spent her
free time reading the works of Virginia Woolf, Soren Kierkegaard and Simone de
Beauvoir. She then spent the next years honing her craft to become a published
author.
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Book Excerpt
Her stare
trailed down to my neck. She kept her eyes there. I watched her pupils widen as
she took in my shoulders from her periphery. She watched me breathe, watched my
pulse through my skin. When she looked in my eyes again, she held her hand out.
“Will you dance
with me first, Empress?” she asked. My breath hitched in surprise. No one dared
to be this forward with me. I'd always hoped someone would. I didn't know what
her intentions were, and yet… “I know. I'm surprising myself by asking this.
We've only just met. But I believe you when you say my sister's all right. I
want to thank you. This is the best I can come up with for right now.”
I stared at her
in disbelief. This woman was too fucking perfect. Smart, resourceful, determined,
influential up in her part of the city, and she had a pair?
There was no way this was real.
“…is that a
no?” she wondered, still holding her hand out to me.
“Just as a
thank you?” I asked, brow raised.
Ser Videl
smiled like in her picture. “For now,” she said. Her voice deepened just enough
to make me hold back a reaction. She saw enough. She saw just
enough to feel me and shed a little more light over her meaning: “I
can make it more than that if you'd like. If you'd allow it.”
I laughed
softly. “Ser Videl, you're attractin' attention,” I pointed out. It was
true—people stared, whispering; trying to figure out what this was all about.
“I'm the Empress of this place. You don't just ask me to dance like this.
Especially when you don't know me. You ain't from here. I'll give you that
much. But you've gotta know some kinda rules from guessin'.”
“I assumed you
wouldn't let me into your headquarters,” she reminded me. “Then you told me you
would have. I guessed you wouldn't dance with me if I asked. I'm asking you in
the hopes that you'll make another exception for me.” She stared down at my
neck again, breathing harder. When she moved her eyes back to mine, hers
darkened, sharpened in deep, lustful focus. “Or is that too much to ask?”
“You're
smooth,” I complimented. “You're real smooth, Ser Videl.”
“Videl. Call me
Videl.”
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