The island's a powder keg, and someone lit the fuse.

Because when cursed magic ravages the Pirate sugar cane fields, a powerful Wizard is assassinated and the most sacred Ninja shrine is defiled with rum-soaked scorn, all within a matter of days, everyone's a suspect.

From Mount Ultrazul, the Ronin — a grim schemer who radiates eldritch might — summons three rival representatives to halt a war... or make it bloodier. Who can say what that immortal lunatic is up to? The investigators he anoints to unravel a conspiracy, walking a tightrope among backstabbing warmongers and a cesspool of faction politics are:

• Gloria Morgana, a dazzlingly charismatic Pirate blessed by Lady Luck who loves daring fate to blink, preferably with a loaded pistol in one hand and a... well... a hook where her other hand used to be.
• Luz Oscura, a Wizard prodigy with violet eyes as hauntingly beautiful as the flames she conjures via forbidden blood magic, blonde hair kept nice and silky smooth like her crimson robes.
• Hidetaka Takeshi, a Ninja deadlier and sharper in mind, body and spirit than the blades he wields like a whirlwind, though he's wound up tighter than an explosive and really needs to let off some steam.

Their fierce distrust of one another could tear them apart, if their budding attraction doesn't break their hearts first, threatening to turn enemies into lovers. Love triangle? No, worse. Polyamory.

That's assuming they even survive the cosmic horrors lurking behind every shadow as jade corruption poisons the land and an ancient terror stirs beneath the island. Will they unite against a dark god's design? Will they become an epic "power throuple" or kill each other before all is said and done?

Blending the cunning of The Lies of Locke Lamora and Six of Crows with the passion of An Ember in the Ashes, the swashbuckling action-adventure romantasy Pirates, Wizards & Ninjas is the first installment in a duology that concludes in Paladins, Warlocks & Necromancers.