Summer is busy in Caer Callidyrr, the Moonshae’s largest and most colorful city. Four factions rule the streets, docks, and court of law silently under the leadership of Queen Alicia Kendrick. From the reckless sportsman’s club to the mysterious cabal of wizards in a city that fears magic, life goes and moves with great certainty. The citizens fear the ever present fey and threats of their own invention.
They should fear something else, disappearances and strange creatures just out of sight have begun to lurk in the city at all hours. Something from an age more savage and violent than the current one wishes to resume its primacy in chaos and sacrificial blood. Secrets are kept in the halls of power, while the dead rise to serve to hate the world yet again. Quietly, the Lord of the Hunt wishes to make the people of Callidyrr his quarry.
What can some soccer hoolligans, happy dogs, The Fisherman’s Guild of rogues, or the Queen’s intelligence service do to stop this threat that dares overtake the city by the Midsummer festival? Only the players can make the difference, by making alliances and discovering the secrets that threaten to unravel the peace and prosperity of the city of the High Queen.
- from the publisher's blurb