Everyone is hiding from something; a secret, a lie. Mine just happens to be a curse, one bestowed upon me before my first birthday; a curse that says I'm supposed to die before I turn sixteen. But that isn't going to happen, because I have a plan. You see, it's impossible to prick your finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel if you're locked in a cell.

First book of five. Acheron, ultimate Assassin of Dalkia, is charged with a job that he can't take. Without second thought, he flees from the Demon Empire that he calls home. Come and see what is to become of the Demon Assassin.