Can the youngest son of a noble house save his family from a plot generations in the making?
Crispin Marlowe grew up in his brotherās shadow, but Hadrian is gone, and his grandmotherāthe Duchess of
Delosāis dying.
Answering her summons, Crispin takes off on what should be a routine flight to the ducal palace from the castle at
Devilās Rest. But he is flying into a trap. There are whispers of treachery among the duchessās many daughters, rumors
of hidden knives in the planetās court ā¦ if he can even make it there.
With no one coming to save him and only his sister, Sabine, and a few injured guardsmen to protect him, House
Marloweās least famous son must make his heroic stand, and contend not only the foes arrayed against his house, but
with the cultists who dwell in the mountains above his familyās ancestral home. ā¦