Torius Vin is perfectly happy with his life as a pirate captain, sailing theInner Sea in search of plunder with a bold crew of buccaneers and Celeste, hissnake-bodied navigator and one true love. Yet all that changes when hissometimes-friend Vreva -- a high-powered courtesan and abolitionist spy inthe slaver stronghold of Okeno -- draws him into her shadowy network ofinsurgents. Caught between the slavers he hates and a navy that sees him as acriminal,...