James is skilled, efficient, and deadly, a hired blade navigating the shifting alliances of a deteriorating Assassin?s Guild. Then he meets Thalia, an alluring but troubled dancing girl who offers him a way out-if he?ll help her kill a powerful nobleman. With the Guild falling apart, it just might be worth the risk. But when you live, breathe, and love in a world that?s forever flirting with death, the slightest misstep can be poison.