Mati, pirate-princess of Kalinga, decides she needs to mend her ways if she intends to be the Queen to her betrothed, the righteous prince of the Hastina Union. But old habits die hard. Especially when one habitually uses murder to settle old scores.

Brooding but beautiful Karna hopes to bury his bloody past but he discovers that life doesn’t give you second chances without conditions, especially when you aren’t completely human.

The cripple Shakuni, hero-turned-torturer, struggles through the maze of daggers that is politics, only for his foes to multiply, leaving little time for him to bring down an empire.

Their lives are about to be upturned by Krishna and Satyabhama, the leaders of the Mathuran Republic. Bled dry by bloody confrontations with the Magadhan Empire, the Mathuran Republic simmers at the brink of oblivion.  Satyabhama and Krishna, play dangerous games, behind and beyond its blood-soaked borders, to stay in power. But with mammoths from the frozen east, marauding Greeks from the west, savage tribes from the forest and the entire Empire marching towards you, how do you defend a City with no allies?