The Life and Times of the Traitor Killean Onryn

What's a villain to do when he's already lost? That's the question plaguing Killean Onryn, shapeshifter and reviled traitor after he is inexplicably released from a cursed sleep by his enemies and left to eek out an existence impersonating fishing cormorants and evading angry war orphans. Until that is, he's kidnapped by a group of mages who want him to steal a magical relic, the Realm Pearl, and retrieve its creator from a notorious Pirate Lord. So far, so Tuesday, in the life of Killean Onryn, but when his former lover; a particularly insistent angry war orphan; a pirate called Cactus, and the celebrated hero who defeated him in the war, all come together to force him to do this one last dirty job, Killean's life gets complicated. Faced with more irritants than one ex-war lord can reasonably be expected to tolerate, Killean must utilise all his ruthlessness, cunning and willingness to set fire to everything and anything in his path, to burn through...