Elenna was a mercenary, one of the best. Her days as a prisoner in the Riverwake Tower were long behind her, and yet still the horrific memories came back to her. Now, some of those memories returned more vividly than ever, as she took on a seemingly impossible assignment from the Duke of Pylar. Was it really possible for her to free one of the women on a slave galley? She would have to become a prisoner on the galley, her only advantage over any other prisoner being that she could free herself from her chains, and then only when she had identified the prisoner she needed to find and planned an escape. Until then, it was inevitable she would suffer horribly…