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The story, Empires of Azure takes place in the fictional city of Paradis. Louis de Jenier is an actor, mimic, mime, and acrobat who impersonates beautiful woman as his speciality. He calls a meeting with a journalist and lets her know that he will die by the end of the week. When the journalist comes to his apartment, she is shocked at what laid before her eyes. The journalist sees Louis dead, but ends up finding a journal that belonged to him. The rest of the novel is told from Louis’ journal, read by the journalist. Louis finds a jewelry which is a silver, sapphire earring. This unique piece of jewelry is not just any jewelry, but contains a spider inside it. The jewelry looked astonishing to him and Louis started wearing it everyday. Ever since Louis found the earring his life went into a downward spiral as he couldn’t control his mental thoughts. At night, Louis starts encountering strange activities as he sees a woman in the form of a spirit. The spirit is Timmone, who used to be a wealthy, blonde woman and was the former owner of the earring. By wearing the jewelry, Louis does not realize that it is slowly possessing him by another spirit. Towards the end of the novel a new character appears, Tiyamonet who is a Egyptian witch. She was a woman with great powers that helped her deceive people and win wars. The earring initially belonged to Tiyamonet and now she is chasing the soul of Louis. Louis gets help from his friends Curt and Vlok by moving out of the paradys, but it was too late as the spirit possessed him. in the end of the story, Louis is found dead and is believed to be killed by the spider that lives in the earring.