Ari lost everything she once loved when the Five Guilds’ resistance fell towards the Dragon Ruler. Now, she uses her unequalled gift for clockwork machinery in tandem with notoriously unethical morals to donate to a flourishing underground organ market. There isn’t a put on Loom that’s secure in the engineer-turned-thief, and her marvelous talents can be purchased to the highest bidder as long as the work defies their Dragon oppressors.

Cvareh would carry out anything to see his sister usurp the Dragon about The Alchemists of Loom Ruler and take a seat on the throne. His family’s house has endured the shame of being the lowest rung in the Dragons’ culture for much too longer. The Alchemist Guild, down on Loom, may just hold the essential to placing his kin in power, if Cvareh will get to them prior to the Dragon King’s assassins.

When Ari stumbles upon a wounded Cvareh, she sees a chance to slaughter an enemy and make a profit off his corpse. However the Dragon views an opportunity to get around Loom with the very best person to get him where he really wants to go.

He offers her the one thing Ari can’t refuse: a desire of her greatest desire, if she brings him to the Alchemists of Loom.