In a feudal world where minotaurs collect debts, werewolves take orders, canned goods travel farther than rumors, and magic shares the road with early industry, a job that begins in a back-alley shakedown draws an unlikely company into the wider troubles of the realm. The Suspicious Man, the enigmatic Beautiful Hand, the quick-tempered Bolt, and the aptly named Angry Horse move through towns, borderlands, and noble courts where every favor has a price and every contract hides another master behind it. As their travels carry them from Ismadai’s shops and the treacherous Barjur Passage to the court of Granado and the unsettled northern frontier, the group becomes entangled with assassins, princes, desert elves, necromancers, religious zealots, and ordinary citizens trying to survive the amb
In a feudal world where minotaurs collect debts, werewolves take orders, canned goods travel farther than rumors, and magic shares the road with early industry, a job that begins in a back-alley shakedown draws an unlikely company into the wider troubles of the realm. The Suspicious Man, the enigmatic Beautiful Hand, the quick-tempered Bolt, and the aptly named Angry Horse move through towns, borderlands, and noble courts where every favor has a price and every contract hides another master behind it. As their travels carry them from Ismadai’s shops and the treacherous Barjur Passage to the court of Granado and the unsettled northern frontier, the group becomes entangled with assassins, princes, desert elves, necromancers, religious zealots, and ordinary citizens trying to survive the amb