King Harold Fyedragon is dead, murdered in his own bed by a lowborn knight who has since fled the capital. It falls to his disabled son, Prince Gideon, to bring the rogue knight to justice and stamp out a plot to steal the Cantarian throne. To this end, he hires a local bounty hunter, Brandon Piper. Together, the two of them will travel across the sea in pursuit of the knight, and there learn dark secrets that have been locked away deep in King Harold's palace...