Adryn has no idea what she's doing in this land with oversized wildlife, natives who consider giant fleas good forms of transport and Imperial spymasters so skooma-addled they think she's spy material, but she has every intention of surviving the stupidity around her. However, she doesn't know that by setting foot on the island she's set into motion events that can't be stopped...

Upon clearing out the Champion's castle, a guard captain and his ward find a letter to a long-dead friend.