Genderfluid Sallot Leon is definitely a thief, and a good one particular at that. But Sal wants nothing more than to flee the drudgery of life like a highway robber and to get nearer to the nobles who demolished home. Therefore when auditions to become person in The Remaining Hand-the Queen’s personal assassins-are announced, Sal jumps at the chance to infiltrate the courtroom and obtain revenge. But a childhood like a common criminal hardly ready Sal for the audition: a fight to the death filled with clever circus acrobats, lethal apothecaries, and vicious ex-soldiers. But Sal succeeds in your competition, winning the heart of the interesting scribe at court, and, together, they begin to dream of a new life and a different future-a upcoming that they can have only if they both survive…