In the first Season of Birth, the Twelve Weapons were born. They gave birth to children, who raised families of their own, and during the Season of Growth the world became a paradise of immortals and their kin. Then the first Season of Decay arrived and the Weapons watched their children suffer. When the first Season of Death arrived, the Weapons murdered them.
In the second Season of Birth, the Children of Weapons were reborn. But they did not forget their deaths, and they did not forgive those who killed them. Now in the Eighth Decay, the world once more prepares for Death, but it is a different death than they would have the Weapons believe.
Ruke, son of the infamous Adelis, Killer of Weapons, sets his sights on the next Weapons he vows to rid from this world. Grylia the Creator, Phapri the Divine, and Rhass the Supreme become his targets, but time is against him as the Season of Death draws closer with every moon.
Laena, beautiful and perfect, and unbearable to be around, is recruited by Ruke along with her brother Hoso, a freak named Fling, and a drunk called Whil. She's never been surrounded by so many ugly and awful-smelling people in her life, but she figures killing Weapons might be fun.
And Rhalt, son of the dreaded Killer Caze, has returned. For Four Cycles he lived, and learned all he could about the lesser lives he loved, the Crafters, the Giants, the Serpents. And for Four Cycles he was dead, suddenly thrust back into a world filled with Tsiotes, Crataii, Takers, and Meats. Adapting to his new world will be a struggle since for all his lives he suffered the same number of deaths and they have left him broken. Will he become a killer like his father, or will he help rid the world of his mother instead and succeed in killing Rhass the Supreme.