<p>When someone starts killing his fellow bounty hunters in the port of Fairhaven Drago Appleroot is happy to help his contacts in the City Watch with their investigation—for a reasonable fee of course. But posing as an assassin-for-hire to draw out the killer attracts the attention of two separate groups from a far-off Elven kingdom whose private war is being fought on the streets of his home town.</p><p>Pitched into a maelstrom of treachery and lethal politics Drago is forced into a long and dangerous journey to the heart of the Sylvan Marches where one determined gnome might just decide the destiny of a kingdom. If he can survive long enough to decide which side he ought to be on.</p>
