Betrayed. Erased. And made an orcish slave. A human child falls into the hands of a fey warlord with aspirations to the unseelie throne. But when that child learns to fight and grows into a shadow-killer of the faewylds, old grudges flock home to roost. Remy Keaton's memories of his prior humanity may have been snuffed out, but when the brutal warlord Rhylfelour takes things too far, Remy makes a strange alliance with the Spider Lady, Rhagathena-illegitimate queen of the Rime Throne. But with hers and the warlord's eyes both set upon rule of the unseelie court, will Remy's revenge trade one monster for an even worse one-one set up to strangle the Winter Court in webs of deceit and skullduggery? All vengeance comes exacts a toll... can Remy Keaton afford to pay its steep price? With Rhylfelour's murderous fits of rage, can Remy afford not to pay it?