Backlash

Samel Dorwen is a young, shopkeeper, trying desperately to save his family’s business during the throes of a nationwide crop shortage. .Mired in debt and struggling to care for his ailing mother, Samel is working himself to death. Constantly ground down by the apathetic nobility and their tax collectors, Samel is close to admitting defeat. Until he meets Joren, the assassin. Desperate to rid himself of debts, and finance a cure for his mother, Samel apprentices under the brutal tutelage of Joren, learning the trade of murder. But each decision comes with a price. Little does he know how much the consequences of his decisions could cost him, but the world he finds is extraordinary.