City of Roses is a serialized epic firmly set in Portland, Oregon, only with more sword fights—a wicked concoction of urban pastoral and incantatory fantastic, where aspirants are knighted in Forest Park, and the Devil keeps a morgue in an abandoned big-box store. Ysabel rules the City of Roses with her brother, Lymond, the King, and Jo Maguire, formerly a telemarketer, is now the Duchess of Southeast—but happily ever after doesn't go as far as it used to.

This omnibus ebook collects chapters 23 – 44 of the critically acclaimed fantasy serial, also available in volume 3, In the Reign of Good Queen Dick, and volume 4, —or Betty Martin.