In a city ruled by ruthless wizards, an honorable thief and his irreverent raven companion land in the center of a conspiracy when they become the unlikely protectors of a woman everyone wants dead, in this first book of a rollicking fantasy adventure series.

My name is Silas Tuck, but they call me Shadow. I’m a fine tracker, a miserably poor thief, and I always work alone. Except for Crow, that is. 

But I’ve got Crow, and Crow’s got me, and together we can sometimes get through things no one else has a chance to survive. 

The Syndicate wizards who hired us for this last job were down to their final candidates since everyone else turned up dead. 

This time, even though we made it out alive and rescued a girl who tried to stab me, everything still went to the Seven Hells.   

Now the Syndicate wants the girl, they want me dead, and there’s absolutely nowhere to run. They also burned down my house and all of Crow’s romance books, so he’s not happy. 

Things look a little grim, and everyone’s telling me we’re going to be dead soon, which is depressing. But they don’t know what Crow­­’s like when he’s really annoyed . . .