After sacrificing everything, he just wanted a chance at a new life. What he thought was an easy job that offered safety and money became a long, ruthless struggle of survival in a foreign land. The second book in the Grayback series finds Bertram Tambling returned to the Confederate Army. When the Confederacy falls, Bertram is suddenly without a country, and through a series of events out of his control, he has a price placed on his head. With little choice but to flee, he and his friend Elwin Tenney strike out on a journey to find purpose, eventually becoming soldiers for hire in the employ of a wealthy military family in Japan. But when they discover the family's plan is for rebellion, their new job becomes much more than they bargained for.