Loyalty between a mercenary and his employer needs to be a reciprocal arrangement. When three men are betrayed one time too many, they decide that it's time to stop running and start fighting - elsewise there will be nowhere left for them to run to.‘The narrow stretch of grass separating the chapel from the cloister had saved it from the fire, but not from desecration…’Mick and Aidan are mercenaries on a simple errand - collect the third member of their crew and report back to the king. What they don't know about is the surprise that awaits them at the end of their journey. One that will force them to fight for their own sakes for the first time.