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There will be blood. There will be death. This is the path of anger...Year 10 of the new Republic, in the remote port city of Masalia. Dun-Cadal, once the greatest general of the Empire, has been drinking his life away for years. Betrayed by his friends and grief-stricken at the loss of his apprentice, hes done with politics, with adventure, and with people. But people arent finished with him - not yet.Viola is a young historian looking for the last Emperors sword, said to have been taken by Dun-Cadal during the Empires final, chaotic hours. Her search not only leads her to the former general, but embroils them both in a series of assassinations. Dun-Cadals turncoat friends are being murdered, one by one, in the unmistakable style of an Imperial assassin.