Yesterday—I was a lady, an heiress of an ancient family. Today—I’m a prisoner with no right to speak. In the past are luxurious balls, spacious chambers, beautiful dresses, and jewelry studded with crystals. Condemned for using mental magic, I’m forced to work for the Crown in the prison’s dungeons, almost resigning myself to the fact that freedom will remain an unattainable dream.
But the past—long forgotten—suddenly raised its head above the murky water of the canals: the measured flow of my new life was shaken when the new chief interrogator broke the routine. Will we learn who is weaving a deadly web in the shadows of the luxurious palaces of my hometown? And what will it cost to help a man whose hidden feelings can’t even be read by an experienced mentalist?