A Drop of Corruption

A Treasury officer has vanished from a locked room inside a guarded tower in Yarrowdale, at the far edge of the Empire, and no door or window was ever opened. The Empire sends the brilliant, difficult Ana Dolabra to solve it, with her assistant Dinios Kol at her side. What looks like a disappearance is a murder, committed by someone who walks through warded doors like smoke and anticipates Ana's every move. Behind it all stands the Shroud, the sealed compound where fallen titans are bled for the magic that powers the Empire. If it falls, everything stops. Din has watched Ana untangle the impossible before, but never against an enemy already one step ahead.