The daughter of a noble family has gone missing. A proud and ancient house has fallen to ruin. Even the dead are disappearing.

And a disgraced exile may be the only one who can save them.

Returning home from the Last War, a bitter soldier discovers a criminal operation trafficking in slaves. When members of his own family turn up missing, his attempt to get them back embroil him in a plot involving illegal necromantic activities that run from the lowliest criminals to the highest reaches of government.