The past he was hiding from has found him and it has a knife.Trouble has found Arbin again. His hopes of staying hidden from his past are shattered when the son of a member of the Governing Council is attacked while visiting the village Arbin is hiding in.The attacker is the very person Arbin had been hiding from for the last eight years. A person once considered a close friend, but who is now someone that has promised to kill him. A man with a rare and hated deadly talent called the Fade. A talent used by others in the past to do great harm and one that many consider demonic.Arbin's history with the attacker is discovered by a special unit of Fade Hunters and he is forced to help them to protect the members of the Governing Council from further attacks.Now Arbin must find a way to deal with this threat from his past while keeping his own deadly talents a secret. The discovery of which would mean his death.A renaissance era fantasy adventure filled with political intrigue, murder and the use of the deadly talents.