Claimed

The narrator wants his son Colt back. Colt was taken, and the people who took him belong to The Order. The plan is to hit them from within, so he sends two people he trusts into that place: Carven, Colt's twin, who wants revenge, and Vivienne, the woman he has fallen for.

With both of them inside, he declares war on Halestrom Hale. Every powerful man and woman in the city has to pick a side, his or Hale's.

When Carven and Vivienne come out again, they carry a look of horror that tells him something about what they saw. His position is weak, with little room left to retreat.

Helene, Vivienne's older sister, turns up as an ally nobody expected. She may be a route to King, and she may also be the one who can give him his family back.

The narrator speaks in the first person, in a tone of vengeance and open conflict. The question driving it is whether the family can be brought together again before the war claims someone he loves.