It has been literally years since I started this trilogy and I only gave up because the hardback copy we have is really heavy! It was worth the wait.

Lorkin is with The Traitors, a rebel group fighting for an end to slavery and the installation of their matriarchal society in place of the Ruling Sachakan elite. His mother, Black Magician Sonea is on her way to The Traitors to negotiate the terms of a treaty with the allied lands.

Meanwhile back at home in Kyralia, Black Magician Sonea’s oldest friends from her childhood in the slums team up with her magician mentor and her new novice to catch the thief killer and the self-proclaimed ‘prince of the slums.’