{"product_id":"the-white-leaf-john-davidson-9798192824405","title":"The White Leaf","description":"\u003cp\u003eThey chose him because he was no one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the Emperor Aurex is murdered by his own sister, the Custodians who guard the throne of the Mithrian Empire need a successor they can manage. They settle on a sixty-one-year-old jurist from the provinces. No house. No heirs. No wealth. No wants. A man who has spent forty years writing legal commentaries that nobody reads.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn his first day, he asks to see the accounts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVibian Rullo is a slave, and the emperor's day-book is his office. He writes down every hour of the eighty-seven days that follow and understands almost none of it, until forty years later, when he steals the book out of an imperial archive and sits down to set the record straight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe empire has an official version of how the throne came to the house that holds it. That version is true. It is not the whole of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Davidson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798192824405\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/16\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 64\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.22lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.15d","brand":"John Davidson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49174528033023,"sku":"9798192824405","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-white-leaf-john-davidson-9798192824405","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}