In the early twenty-third century, one of very few ways to rise above your caste is to become a player in the extreme martial arts game known as the Musashi Flex. Now, three people will enter its violent culture. Lazlo Mourn is ready to hang up his blades when his moves suddenly evolve toward a form of fighting unlike any the galaxy has ever seen. Journalist Cayne Sola is determined to get the big story on the games, and not even the most blood-hungry Flex fighter will stop her. Billionaire Ellis Mtumbo Shaw has everything money can buy except fame on the Flex fields of combat, but an untested drug may put that within his reach. Their fates will entwine and be decided in the bloody arena of the Flex. And if they survive, their story will become legend.