Romy and her three partners in crime - a sword master, a silversmith, and her thieving brother - have embraced their roles as the Shadow Lords agents, using their forbidden magic to accomplish tasks his other spies cannot. Now, theyve been tasked with locating a list of powerful men and women pledged to assassinate the tyrant Protector of Mercediare, Cantagnas most dangerous enemy. Then, they must destroy the list before it falls into the Protectors hands, where it could plunge the entire Costa Drago into a rampage of murderous vengeance. But when Placidio and Romy infiltrate the ambassadors household by impersonating a cloth