In the Semirian Empire, owning magic is a crime punishable by direct road to the stake. For one hundred and fifty years, this has become the norm everyone has learned to live with… except for a small group of mages.
Elyra Tyeory is an investigator from the department tasked with combating mages. She has always believed her work is righteous and has long earned recognition from her superiors. But one day fate brings her together with a young man who knows quite a lot about magic and mages.
Alas, at that moment even Elyra couldn’t imagine that very soon, because of him, she herself would become a criminal. She will turn out to be a pawn in someone else’s game, and her life will come to resemble a walk on a tightrope over the abyss—where each step may be the last.
The first part of the dilogy. The second part is titled “Walking Over the Abyss. Mistress of the Sky.”