Publisher Blurb:
Death of the Author
In pursuit of a spy who stole military technology schematics, the party surveils a gathering in a remote manor in the Malice Lands. But a storm traps them overnight, and they realize that the thief and their buyer aren’t the only guests with a hidden agenda.
Among the several foreign travelers are a scholar plumbing the manor’s vile history, a too-friendly preacher, two veterans who fought on opposite sides of the last war, and a prophet who foretells a greater war yet to come. Two famous philosophers have come here as well, meeting in private to perhaps avert that calamitous conflict, and one of those men is the chancellor of Drakr himself, Vlendam Heid.
When the gaslights malfunction and the chancellor’s bodyguard is murdered, the party must figure out whom among the guests they can trust, who is the spy, and who is the killer.