Torius Vin is perfectly happy with his life as a pirate captain, sailing
the Inner Sea in search of plunder with a bold crew of buccaneers and
Celeste, his snake-bodied navigator and one true love. Yet all that
changes when his sometimes-friend, Vreva--a high-powered courtesan and
abolitionist spy in the slaver stronghold of Okeno--draws him into her
shadowy network of insurgents. Caught between the slavers he hates and a
navy that sees him as a criminal, can Torius continue to choose the path
of piracy? Or will he sign on as a privateer, bringing freedom to
others--at the price of his own?