After a decade of warfare in the northern wastes, war lord Kael Ashwood returns to his hometown bearing the despised status of a "clanless rogue." He arrives just in time to see his mother forced to her knees and his sister being dragged toward the woodshed. He offers no explanations. Fist by fist, he fights his way up from a local bully to a corporate syndicate, and then to the underworld's highest council. At every level, they believe themselves untouchable. At every level, they have no idea that the rogue they've thrown into the prison, can mobilize the entire Silverguard with a single command. And when the mastermind behind it all issues a public assassination order under the spotlight, when the premier clan patriarch presses a silver blade to his mother's throat and forces him to kneel before the crowd, this is the moment he has been waiting for. The evidence of the top predators' crimes is all inside the recording pen tucked against his chest. Where the Death Howl passes, no pack survives.
