When professional duelist Conn Labro escapes indentured servitude as
the star player of Horder's Emporium, he abandons the gaming world of
Thrais and sets out on an interstellar journey filled with murder,
deceit, and self-discovery. His only friend on Thrais, discovered dead
and tortured, left him enough money to buy himself out of his contract
and a curious encrypted "bearer deed" to a mysterious property on the
distant edge of the galactic Spray. With the seductive, secretive
showgirl Jenore Mordene at his side and a villainous pleasure cult
dogging his every move, Labro sets out to learn the truth behind his
bearer deed and more about his own past than he had ever dared bargain
for.
For the first time ever in paperback, this thrilling, vividly imagined
new science fiction novel from rising star Matthew Hughes (The
Commons, Majestrum, The Spiral Labyrinth) provides atmospheric
adventure in the classic tradition while layering on complex,
fascinating societies and future cultures with the deft touch of a
master storyteller.