<i><b>Some memories, you can never outrun. The blood on my hands, the ringing shouts on the air, the sound of booted feet pelting against the cobblestones somewhere on the twisting streets behind me...</b><br /><br />I knew in that moment, my life had changed forever.<br /><br />But with my one true friend abducted, and nowhere to run, the blood on my hands soon became only the first of my problems...</i><br /><br />Reunite with goddess-sworn assassin apprentice Raziel as he navigates a world of treacherous magic and intrigue in this second novel in the Fatal Empire fantasy series by the author of the World of Lasniniar series, Jacquelyn Smith.