Torius Vin is perfectly happy with his life as a pirate captain, sailing the Inner Sea in search of plunder with a bold crew of buccaneers and Celeste, his snake-bodied navigator and one true love. Yet all that changes when his sometimes-friend Vreva -- a high-powered courtesan and abolitionist spy in the slaver stronghold of Okeno -- draws him into her shadowy network of insurgents. Caught between the slavers he hates and a navy that sees him as...