The Raider’s Oath is dead.

With the uneasy truce between the Raiders broken, tensions run wild in Alcabaza as rival groups are at each other’s throats. Isiah and his friends try their best to keep their heads down and stay out of trouble… but when a mysterious band of killers begins prowling the night, the situation spirals into all-out chaos.

Banished from Alcabaza and marched deep into the Badlands at the hands of merchant slavers, Isiah and Tessa must fight to stay alive. But after they fall in with a group of unlikely rescuers, it seems like Isiah has finally caught a break. His rescuers promise to give him a home—a place where all are welcome, even people who are Marked like him.

But things aren’t as idyllic as they first seem—and as he soon discovers, his newfound allies are hiding a terrible secret…