They call him Rat—a child of the Yiga, cast down into the darkness. Surviving in the Depths, he lives for vengeance against the swordsman Link.

When Rat’s battle with the hero takes an unexpected turn, he lands at the mercy of the man he tried to kill. He discovers Link is not as callous as he believed. There’s a man behind the hero, with his own struggles and dreams, who might be worthy of Rat’s respect, maybe even his trust.

But Rat won’t win his freedom so easily. A cunning leader is rising in the Yiga Clan who sees an opportunity in Rat’s new loyalties. When their trap closes around Link, Rat will have to face the dark and return to the Depths, and become his own kind of hero.

A clean, novel-length adventure set mid-game Tears of the Kingdom.