A powerful and gripping debut grimdark fantasy novel, set in a world of criminals, pirates, assassins, and magic...“A man has only three reasons for being anywhere: to right a wrong, to earn a coin, or because he is lost.”Cassius is not lost...The mage Cassius has just arrived on the island of Scipio. Five miles of slum on the edge of fifty miles of jungle, Scipio is a lawless haven for criminals, pirates, ...