A mage seeking purpose crosses paths with a warrior trying not to lose herself…

Allura’s Haven is unraveling. Trade routes fail, gangs clash openly, citizens erupt in feral rage, and the mayor has vanished. Officially, the Council of Sevenfold claims control. Unofficially, Lucien Olivier de Ragnaisse warns Councilmember Victoria Vulperian that the acting mayor, Lewys Hershkowitz is forcing order too hard, and risking something far worse rising from beneath the city.

Unable to act openly, Victoria turns to her network, only to be saddled with an unintended partner, her nephew, Reinald. Their investigation pulls them into the city’s underground fighting pits and toward truths better left down there. And that truth drags in someone who should never have become involved at all: Brigitte.