Yarmian Eventyde must evade deadly forces hunting him and get out of Thellesene as quickly as possible; his life depends on it. His main chance of escaping the hunters? Tiresian and his ship, the Idalina.
Yarmian now has a clue which might lead him to the whereabouts of the Wizzen Evrard, the mystic assassin who killed Albionus Eventyde, his stepfather, and that clue is to be found in Farakand...
Serendipity gifts Yarmian an ally in his quest for vengeance against Evrard, and the trail leads to the city of Kallasta. Thugs, brutes, corrupt authorities, crime lords, killers... Yarmian must prevail over them all before he can hope to fulfll his one and only oath: to find Evrard and avenge his stepfather's murder.