Contract killer Kaylar Stern returns from the shadows for a final assignment—and possibly his last chance to atone for his sins.
After the war that took almost everything from him, Kaylar is broken and alone. He has promised himself he will never kill again, but the coming amnesty may free a villain who must not be allowed to live. Kaylar convinces himself it will be the only time—one last blow to cut through the knot of the past.
But his best—perhaps even his only—friend, the High King Logan Gyre, asks for help. For a fragile peace, for a new kingdom, and for the twin sons. Logan needs Kaylar to retrieve a powerful magical artifact, discovered after the war.