Charlie Parker—a young and incredibly successful detective—is uprooted from her hometown in Florida and planted in New York City after a particularly gruesome case. She thought she left it all behind, but what happens when the murderer she helped escape shows up looking for retribution?

"Once a thief, always a thief," Halt reminded Gilan when he saw his former apprentice watching the woman. Gilan found that he couldn't look away from her. "She is not to be trusted, Gilan."

I can see now that if I had died that night I would have died without knowing what it means to be a Ranger, and this Kingdom would have lived on never knowing what it means to be Gorlan's Ranger.

"Not the maniacal daughter you'd expect, is she?"

Conspiracy is a potent poison breeding doubt in the hearts of New York's finest CSIs. One question sticks in the mind of an investigator when clues start pointing to them for murder. Where oh where do you run when you can't hide?

It's astonishing, how everything you've ever known can change in one instant. In just one moment, I went from an insignificant thief to the greatest defiler Araluen has ever seen.

The darkest enemies may soon become Araluen's greatest allies as Halt and Gilan are thrown into a vicious battle to save all of Araluen. EPILOGUE ADDED! 2\20\10! R&R!