Cursed with a magic ring that forbids skullduggery, Tyvian Reldamar's
life of crime is sadly behind him. Now reduced to fencing moldy relics
and wheedling favors from petty nobility, he's pretty sure his life
can't get any worse.
That is until he hears that his old nemesis, Myreon Alafarr, has been
framed for a crime she didn't commit and turned to stone in a
penitentiary garden. Somebody is trying to get his attention, and that
somebody is playing a very high-stakes game that will draw Tyvian and
his friends back to the city of his birth and right under the noses of
the Defenders he's been dodging for so long. And that isn't even the
worst part. The worst part is that the person pulling all the strings is
none other than the most powerful sorceress in the West: Lyrelle
Reldamar.
Tyvian's own mother.