A nation built on injustice and slaves
An anger born of truth and betrayal
A choice that can never be unmade

The young bounty hunter Teer remembers two his own, travelling with the half-demigod Kard and struggling to learn his own strange magical powers; and that of the last Adept of the Orders, a trained master of the powers he fumbles with.

A journey deep into the Unity has bought him reconciliation with the dead man’s memories, but the injustices of both lives fuel an anger Teer struggles to control. Even as he and Kard return to the borderlands where they are safe, they collide with more of the injustice that defines the Unity.

Injustice they cannot stop. They are two men, but Teer now remembers an entire life of running and exile. Pragmatism says to move on—but Teer’s anger is done running.

Hundreds of innocent lives hang in the balance, but against the might of the Unity Army and the commands of a Spehari demigod, what one man do?