ققنوس (ولاد تال‌توس، جلد ۵)

When The Demon-goddess Saves Him From A Certain Death, Vlad Must Pay Her Back With His Professional Services As An Assassin. Verra, Vlad's patron goddess, hires him to assassinate a king whose country lies outside the Dragaeran Empire, resulting in increased tension between the two places. Meanwhile, the peasant Teckla and the human Easterners persevere in their fight for civil rights. As Vlad's wife Cawti is a firm partisan of the movement, and Vlad is not, their marriage continues to suffer, causing Vlad to make some decisions that will change his life forever. Vlad Taltos is saved from certain death by the Demon Goddess, and then offered a job to work for her