Kaylin returned from the West March without trouble. Given that piece is certainly fraying. She’s not really in the home in the Imperial Palace-and she hardly ever intends to be. All she wants is normal garden-variety scammers and a location of her own. Of course, normal in her new life consists of a dragon as a roommate, but she are designed for that.

Kaylin can’t as easily handle the brand new residents to the town she polices, because one of them is Nightshade’s younger sibling. On a night when she should be talking to landlords in perfectly normal structures, she’s called to the fief-by Teela. A small family disagreement has become a large, complicated problem: Castle Nightshade’s latent magic is normally waking.

And it’s really not the thing.