In a scorched world soldered by loose allegiances and resource-driven codependency, loyalty is forged, tempered, and stressed to a breaking point. Hiroshi Gunkimono is the youngest High Seraph in the Syndicate of Valor. It is his duty to enact the will of the Syndicate’s Elders by upholding the tenuous peace of their Treaty of Neo-Earth. A duty he fulfills with self-righteous tenacity until the failure to execute the sworn enemy to his cause, Joan Flayr thrusts Hiroshi into the center of a violent web of intrigue, revelation, and retribution. If Hiroshi learns how secrets of the past threaten to incite war in the present, will he search his soul for answers or follow his sword to vengeance