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She swore to serve him. He wants nothing more than to set her free.
Avinasi Lumadai has given her oath, and to her people, an oath is not something that can simply be abandoned. She is Skamsen Duhkai’s slave, bound to follow three steps behind her master wherever he chooses to go.
Skamsen would rather she didn’t.
Once a highly trained assassin, Skamsen has turned his back on that life for the quieter work of a bounty hunter. But there is one piece of his past he has never been able to leave behind: the murder of his wife and unborn child. After years of searching, he finally has a trail to the man responsible—and he intends to follow it to the end.
Avinasi intends to follow him.
Their journey carries them across a dangerous empire of bounty hunters, soldiers, assassins, rebels, and men willing to kill for secrets best left buried. But the farther Avinasi travels from everything she has ever known, the more she begins to see the man beneath her master’s anger. And she becomes convinced Skamsen is wrong about himself.
He believes vengeance is all he has left. She believes there is still something in him worth saving.
Unfortunately, Skamsen never asked to be saved.
An epic fantasy of dangerous journeys, unlikely companionship, loyalty, vengeance, and the complicated bonds created by promises that cannot easily be broken, Three Steps Back: First Command begins the Twice Seven a Slave series.