Well, Chaos Looks Good on Me

Cassius Norwicke is the illegitimate son of Matthias Norwicke, the Minister of Rites, and the other sons of the house have pushed him around since he was small. His mother died when he was young. Cassius himself came into that body from a later time. The traps laid for him come from inside the Norwicke residence and from outside it, and he gets clear of them with what he knows, once and then again. He comes to know Princess Josephine and General Justina Crawford in the course of this, and there are feelings on both sides while he works his way up out of the place the family left him in.