From publisher blurb: Flenheim is a wretched, horrible place. Wretched in dancing shadows, the derro enclave is renowned for its flesh crafters—derro skilled in the art of enhancing their customer’s bodies by grafting or infusing the body parts of others onto their own. Flenheim is also at the centre of a growing slave trade and many come here to browse the wares at the Collectors’ Lodge and the Shadow Market. And above the clamour of life and trade, moans and screams echo through the village. It is here the mad derro bard Herath Syngler perfects flenning—the art form of using the screams of torture victims to create soul-crushing symphonies of macabre horror. Each performance is unique and Herath always has need of fresh instruments. His seemingly unending thirst for new muses has brought him into conflict with the fleshcrafters and soon bloody violence and slaughter may engulf Flenheim’s chaotic society…