Damage and Alatra, a pair of pit fighters, get a break from the relentless combat that defines their lives. Tasked with guarding a caravan, they discover a mysterious tower and learn that death courted outside the pits is just as perilous and decidedly more sinister.

They tricked him into committing murder, and now Black Morgan of Aldare is hunting them down in Michael A. Stackpole’s The Krells of Tancras Moor.

Redemption is never simply bestowed, it must be earned. James D. Mill’s The Evil Eye offers a particularly sharp commentary on this idea, for in his world, earning redemption can require payment in blood, or more…