In the Underworld, new times have come.
Savin dan Glokta—financier, investor, and the daughter of the most frightening man in the Union—by any means strives for the top of the rotten high society. The slums are boiling with rage that even all the money in the world can’t contain.
Leo dan Brock is doing everything possible to win glory on the blood-soaked borders of Ingliya. He wants to defeat the marauding armies of Stur the Summrak and counts on help from the Crown.
The age of machines is dawning, but the era of magic refuses to die.
The Shearer’s daughter, young Rikke, tries to master the gift of the Long Glance. But how can you change the revealed future when the First of the magi continues to play with people and states like puppets…