What's better than one Jedao, ressurected general who slaughtered his own army? Two Jedaos! One with a reduced set of memories working for an immortal hexarchate who wants to keep torturing people so he can live forever, and the other the rest of his memories stuck in a rogue Kel who brought down the old empire and who is determined to assassinate both the new Jedao and the hexarchate, though she doesn't realise just how dificult it's going to be. There's a new, fragile, less torturey society coming together, all it has to do is survive.