They kicked in his front door. They took his family and seized his business. Powerful and corrupt, they fear nothing from one young man.

They underestimated him.

Arjun is a skilled bronze smith in Zakran, vast and wicked city of a thousand thousands. He works hard and lives honestly, but things he never imagined are now in motion. When city guards smash into his home, his father orders him to escape. He does so, into the blackness of the ghoul-haunted sewers.

Inina is a rogue, born to the streets. Dark eyed and slender waisted, she is beautiful enough to be eyed by the slavers for any number of unpleasant fates. She has survived by her wits, shady friends, and deadly skill with her knife. When she meets the strange young man with the rich but tattered clothes, her life changes forever.

Bal-Shim is a smiling and suddenly prominent man, loved by rich and poor alike. He promises the working people of Zakran many wonderful things, and they'll have them - though he may have a few requests in return.

Join them, and enter an ancient world of danger, deceit, bloodshed and sorcery.