Today is Allisse Brenner’s last day in soul-crushing poverty. That’s because it’s her first day of work at the Alabaster Inn, the finest lodging in all the land, and that means full meals, clothes that fit her, and maybe even medicine to save her grandmother’s life. But what place does a girl like her have amongst wealthy merchants, powerful nobles, larger-than-life adventurers? Is she going to be able to make it here? Or is this job going to chew her up and spit her out the way it has so many others?  The tasks are impossible. The pay is inconceivable. The manager is a vampire. Welcome to the Alabaster Inn.