A standalone set in the same world as the First Law trilogy, following Monza Murcatto, the most feared mercenary general in Styria, who is thrown from a cliff and left for dead by the Duke she served. She survives. The novel is a revenge story - seven names, seven deaths - structured like a heist, with Monza assembling a crew of specialists as morally compromised as she is. The tone is darker and the setting more Italian-Renaissance than the trilogy, with city-states, condottieri, and political intrigue replacing the North and the Union. One of Abercrombie's tightest constructions.