Epic new fantasy from your bestselling writer of The Summoner. Within a city beset by monsters, three brothers must find out who is controlling the abominations. The city-state of Ravenwood is certainly wealthy, powerful, and corrupt. Merchant Princes and Guild Masters bet fortunes to outmaneuver Little league competitors for the king’s favor and beneficial trading conditions. Lord Mayor Ellor Machison wields assassins, bloodstream witches, and forbidden magic to make sure that his powerful patrons get what they want, no matter about Scourge the cost. Corran, Rigan, and Kell Valmonde are Guild Undertakers, left to perform their family’s business when guards murdered their dad and monsters wiped out their mom. Their grave magic enables them to help souls pass towards the After and banish vengeful spirits. Rigan’s magic is definitely unusually solid and allows him to listen to the confessions from the useless, the secrets that could otherwise be studied towards the grave. When the toll exacted by monsters and brutal guards hits close to home and ghosts expose the hidden sins of effective guys, Corran, Rigan and Kell become targets in a lethal game and encounter a choice: obey the Guild, or fight and risk everything.