For a long time, the quick-witted swindler Chargen Yanich managed to stay out of reach of the law. But where human law fails, sooner or later the law of balance will work. And now she is in foreign lands, drawn into a dark story far more dangerous than any of her schemes. And her only hope for salvation lies with the cynical investigator Stevan Sheshel. Chargen hopes to slip away again—outsmarting both fate and the detective. But what if these two start acting together?