An unlikely escape was only the beginning. Now, Renault wants desperately to escape his past. But his past won't let him. With a sadistic and cruel bounty hunter on his trail and his friends in peril from the fallout of his escape, Renault's choices are severely limited. Can he save his friends and thwart the greatest bounty hunter in the West Indies or will his legendary reputation come to a gruesome end? Malachai has faced down challenges all his life-brutal tyrants, cruel slave masters, marauders and vicious gangs hell-bent on invading his town and destroying his community. He has subdued them all. Now, he faces the biggest challenge of his life-the evil tyrant, Governor Proximus. But how can he possibly hope to win when Governor Proximus has the might of the Terra-Gaulian Empire at his disposal? Find out how a man who has survived the bowels of hell itself will respond to the challenge.