Troy Halloway, a war hero turned private investigator is called into the Haven City Mayor's office to find out who tried to kill him, and why. What makes everything worse, is that Troy is set to marry the man's daughter, making the situation personal--and dangerous.
Lawrence Caldwell is believed by some to be a wandering samurai, or a vagrant, or possibly a ninja—though perhaps in his infinite mystery, he is none of these things. Whichever the case, he wanders home as Odysseus did after the great Trojan War in some realm unbeknownst to our world (or was that Elric of Melniboné?) It matters not. Finally, and—by direct theft of a quote from a certain dwarf named Varric Tethras—he “occasionally writes books.”