The enigmatic Turkish prince Orhan, who lives in the court of the Palaiologos as both a friend and a hostage, experiences a passionate yet unfulfilled love with a Christian courtier, a love hindered by power conspiracies, personal weaknesses, ambivalences, and vacillations.

His tragic fate leads him to an extreme conflict, to fight alongside the Romans during the critical hours of the siege for the salvation of Constantinople from the Ottomans.

Through the unique perspective of the "foreign" prince, who was a relative of the conqueror Mehmet and had claims to the Ottoman throne, the reader follows the painful journey of the Palaiologos from the Council of Ferrara-Florence to the fall of the City, the fierce fanaticism of the unionists and anti-unionists, and the end of the great empire.

The historical novel "Orhan: In the Court of the Palaiologos" is the novel of division and the Fall. A book that brings to life the legendary figures and dramatic events of the final years of Byzantium.