"Aral the Jack, formerly the noble Aral Kingslayer, is the best kind
of hero: damaged, cynical and despondent, yet needing only the right
cause to rise from his own ashes."--Alex Bledsoe
Once a fabled Blade of Namara, Aral Kingslayer fought for justice and
his goddess alongside his familiar, a living shadow called Triss. Now
with their goddess murdered and her temple destroyed, they are among the
last of their kind. Surviving on the fringes of society, Aral becomes a
drunken, broken, and wanted man, working whatever shadowy deal comes his
way. Until a mysterious woman hires him to deliver a secret message-one
that can either redeem him or doom him.