Esmerelda Ciantar was the eldest child of the most powerful of the Hawkpurse families. Her family's history could be traced back before the Plague and could have been the very first Hawkpurse family in existence. Trained from an early age to eventually take over the family business, Ezzy spent the first twenty years of her life shut away from the rest of the world. But then one man destroyed hundreds of years of her family's wealth and prosperity. Ean Sangrave. Now Ezzy is set on a path to find the man responsible for her family's tragic downfall. Her only ally is Nolan Bintershad, her family's personal Thaljori and her most trusted friend. After a year of searching and following unreliable leads, she finally finds some information that will set her on a straight path to justice for her family. Life rarely makes things easy, however, and Ezzy soon finds herself with more enemies then she could imagine and with an ever growing bounty placed on her head.