This first installment in the Nightrunner series is brimming with magic and intrigue.

When young Alec of Kerry is taken prisoner for any crime he didn’t commit, he is certain that his life is at an end. However the thing he hadn’t counted on was his cellmate.

Spy, rogue, thief, and noble, Seregil of Rhiminee is many things-none of these predictable. And when he offers to take on Alec as his apprentice, stuff may never become the same for either of them. Soon Alec is definitely traveling highways he never knew existed, toward a war he under no circumstances suspected was brewing. In a short time he and Seregil are embroiled within a sinister plot that runs deeper than either can imagine and that might cost them far more than their lives if they fail. But fortune is really as unpredictable as Alec’s brand-new mentor, and this time there might just be fortune in the shadows.