The Triple Alliance — Zoe Saadia

In the Aztec Capital, Tlacaelel, the Head Adviser, is busy reshaping the island-city to fit its rapidly changing status from a regular city-state to a true capital, an owner of provinces and tributaries. The old system is not working anymore, but Tlacaelel's radical reforms and changes anger influential people, from priests to elders of districts, those whose power is dwindling due to his reforms

During a ballgame being held between the Texcoco and Mexica teams to celebrate the upcoming winter festival -- a fierce competition that will add much honor to the winning city-state -- one of the players, Coatl, a promising warrior, the Texcoco Warlord's son, is prepared to do anything in order to win. What he was not prepared for was becoming entangled in a political intrigue that starts while he is busy chasing a pretty girl, with the unexpected arrival of his twin brother complicating matters even further.