Oath of Iron and Bone. Oath of Iron and Bone, #3

Corius, a battle-hardened warrior from the frozen North, is now a wandering vagabond in a foreign, walled city. The wind that whips down its cobblestone streets carries the hot, flinty tang of the open desert-a world away from the cold that shaped him. Here, in this sun-scorched land, his heavy-boned, fair look makes him an object of both desire and disdain. But Corius is a man running from a past as brutal as any desert sun, and he has just stumbled into a nest of vipers where survival is measured in inches of steel.