The wedding of Lord Lucas Trask and Lady Elaine Karvall was meant to be a beginning, a union of two great houses that would secure a future of peace for the Sword-Worlds. But in a single, bloody moment of madness, that future was incinerated.
When the unstable Andray Dunnan descended upon the ceremony with a submachine gun in hand, he left behind more than just carnage and a stolen starship. He left Lucas Trask a hollow shell of a man, standing amid the ruins of his happiness. With his bride dead and his heart shattered, the former baron has nothing left to lose ... and everything to avenge.
Driven by a singular, burning purpose, Lucas abandons his titles and his lands to embrace a calling he once despised: the life of a Space Viking. To find Dunnan in the lawless, sprawling reaches of the Old Federation, he must trade his nobility for steel and his peace for piracy.