Renny’s life had been pretty tough so far. First an orphan, then a runaway, and finally an experienced cutpurse by her fifteenth year, one day she finds herself being framed for a crime she didn’t commit. Saved by a stranger, an old sorcerer named Sooliman Arkane, they begin as unlikely a companionship as was ever forged. After four years together, Renny has become the family Sooliman never had, and he fills the void in her heart left by the family she lost. Sooliman wants her to become his magician’s apprentice, but Renny likes her “career” as a thief and burglar. Until one night she steals the wrong thing from a certain rich and powerful merchant. Before she knows what she has done, the little thief sets off a chain of events that changes her life forever. And if that wasn't enough, Sooliman’s old friend, the northern mercenary, Tulag Gor, has arrived in Borggat looking for him. The news he bears not only turns all their lives upside down, but threatens to shake the foundations of every kingdom and realm in the West and beyond.