One year after the Scourge of the Red Ravens, Katherine, Besola, and Naurea try to discover the truth about the man who romanced, swindled, and abandoned each of them: Radovan Drake. Sending out invitations to any other women similarly harmed by the pirate, they are surprised when sixteen other women show up, including an old enemy they thought was dead...

As the women enjoy their night of wine, gossip, reading Radovan's old love poems, heartbreak, and healing, Naurea's husband meets her uncle and the two of them hit the local tavern. Surely nothing could go wrong...