Things are going well for Alex Verus. Hes on moderately good terms with the Council his apprentice is settling in & his shop in Camden is gaining quite a reputation. But when a mysterious woman bursts into the Arcana Emporium one night with an assassin on her tail Alex is thrown into a plot to revive a long-forbidden ritual. His old enemies are after the secret as well as a Council mage named Belthas & a mercenary named Garrick & at least one of them is trying to get Alex killed
- if he only knew which. He can see the future but knowing who to trust is something else.