Thing's had been going well for Komena Siri.  After years of working as a private investigator, she had settled into the comfortable mediocrity of her dreams. Cases were coming steady, she had enough time to watch the sand ship races and she hardly knew most of the smugglers she had caught lately. Then she was hired by the city's ruling archmages. One of them number has been murdered, despite her mastery of elemental destruction, and her most recent spell has gone missing, stolen by the killer. Now she's forced to trade small time thugs and lost trinkets for outrunning summoned demons, blood thirsty mages and the politics of a city of sorcerers. The only help she'll have is her wits, the fruits of a misspent youth on the city's rough streets, a disgraced foreign diplomat and his young, perpetually annoyed ward.