Todd Black. Battered child. Street kid. Prisoner. His happy childhood was terminated the day his parents were murdered by home invaders.

The last piece of his family, his beloved sister, withering away while he remains powerless, until her suicide. The only thing expecting him afterwards seem to be terrible foster homes and cruel schools, one after the other. Every shred of comfort and dignity mercilessly torn away.

There was no peace to be found for Todd Black. As he is forced to pass through fire and iron, through loss and pain, will his desperate need for justice, for revenge, be replaced by cynicism?

Will he come out a cold executioner with no shred of his innocence and his soul, or something more? Something like a saint with a sword?