Sole survivor of a devastating family massacre in Northbay, Gideon Cross returns after eighteen years of rigorous martial cultivation in the mountains. Armed with esoteric techniques known as the Seventy-Two Earthly Shifts, he immediately crashes the lavish birthday celebration of corrupt tycoon Malcolm Graves, presenting an ominous funeral casket to signal his bloody reckoning.
As Northbay's criminal underworld mobilizes elite assassins and treacherous poisoned blades to silence him, Gideon rescues Valerie Pierce, discovering she is both his betrothed and the commander of the clandestine Dragon Order. Together they navigate assassination attempts, seductive double agents, and foreign cartels to expose the cartel barons who destroyed his lineage.
