Bleeder kills a Survivorist priest while posing as a Pathian, which spurs riots in the city. Wax contacts his uncle Edwarn and attempts to strike a truce with the Set, but learns that the Set is backing Bleeder with both manpower and money. Wax is saved by MeLaan, a kandra sent by Harmony to help him. Bleeder finds a way to mentally communicate with Wax and draws him away from a noble party and into a trap laid by Set enforcers.
Wax and Marasi become convinced that governor Innate (whom Marasi has discovered is corrupt) will be the next target of Bleeder's attacks, and Wax finds evidence that Bleeder may have a personal vendetta against him. Harmony promises to send supernatural help to Wax in order to foil her plots. She now seeks unrest and destruction in the city, and is convinced that Harmony is a terrible, cruel god.
She has also found a way to grant herself metallic powers using Hemalurgy, though she can only hold one ability at a time. She has gone mad, and ripped out one of her spikes to hide from Harmony.
Wax is approached by Harmony himself, who informs him that a rogue kandra named Paalm, now known as Bleeder, is responsible for the killings. Wax finds evidence that only a Steelrunner (a Feruchemist who can store and utilize speed) could have committed the murders, but when he tracks down the only Steelrunner in the city, he finds her dead, murdered with a Hemalurgic spike. This incident further stokes unrest over corruption and bad working conditions in the city. Wax is called off the job and summoned by the constables to aid in a major investigation: the brother of Elendel's governor has been murdered at a meeting with a number of powerful crime bosses, who have all also been killed. While hunting down a criminal called the Marksman with his partner Wayne, Wax sees the face of Bloody Tan (the man responsible for Lessie's death) in a crowd, but is unable to find him when he searches. Wax has now been deputized by the city's constabulary. Wax and Marasi have learned of the art of Hemalurgy from the book given to them by Ironeyes. In the present, it is one year since the defeat of the Vanishers. In a flashback, Waxillium Ladrian first meets his future wife Lessie on a bounty hunt, where they work together to bag a powerful crime boss. It is preceded by The Alloy of Law in 2011 and followed by The Bands of Mourning in 2016. It was published on Octoby Tor Books and is the second book in the Wax and Wayne series and fifth in the Mistborn series. Mistborn: Shadows of Self is a fantasy novel written by American author Brandon Sanderson.
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