One final terrifying challenge stands between swordsman and smuggler Vazeer the Lash and the fortune he needs to escape his life of crime. Hired to bring down The Raving Blade, his city’s most sadistic power broker, Vazeer joins a rogue’s gallery of expert Shadow Bidders, each a master of a unique set of unsavory skills, to complete one last job. With life and death hanging in the balance, secrets are revealed and violence erupts, irreversibly blurring the line between good and evil.