Today isn't Rojan's day. His latest bounty almost killed him three times, his girlfriends all found out about each other and trashed his rooms---and his niece has been kidnapped. Now he's got to use his magic to find her - and there is a good chance it will end up destroying him.<br><br>Rojan follows his niece's trail to the Pit, the underbelly of the city. The Pit was evacuated when the Synth-tox wiped out most of the city's residents ---and a new city was built over it. But what he wasn't told is that the Pit was never emptied. And Rojan isn't the only one using pain magic. And there is more at stake than the life of one little girl.