Discovered in a remote forest swamp, the tall, powerfully-built stranger is badly injured and has no memory.

Named Kyre, he is first forced to fight for his life against the army patrols that found him, and then in the arena.

As his skills grow and his injuries heal, so his extreme speed and violence become valued by the troopers’ captain and a young woman member of a clandestine sisterhood, the Rua.

Believing him to be from The Pit – or the stars –  they, and the realm lord, conspire with and against each other to use him in their own intrigues and killings.

But, as their schemes start to unravel in the face of unforeseen realm-wide events, so Kyre’s mind and memory are expanding, and thoughts of his own destiny begin to take shape.

The Realm of the Lordlands will never be the same again…