Ezekiel is now the leader of the terrorist insurgency that once threatened her life. But the next task before her is monumental: build her own cell of soldiers, establish a court, and reclaim her birthright to the House of Death, the last guild standing between her people and annihilation. But a figure in the shadows also has a birthright to claim, and before he does, he means to teach Ezekiel the true meaning—and horrors—of Death.