About the book: a year / A year has passed since Val beat Gavin at his own game... She buried her old life and her old name, but the memories from her dark her past haunts her at every corner—and some of those memories have teeth. The public is out for her blood. Her enemies want her life. And Val just wants to forget. So she fled to the city, where even the hunted can become one with steel and concrete. But the dead don't always stay in their graves. And hanging pawns can be promoted to queens.