Aaron Felhorn is the heir to his father's criminal empire, which controls all the thieves guilds of the city, but when he risks his life to protect a priest's daughter, he sees the possibilities beyond crime and the rule of his father.
Just as the war between the theif guilds and the Trifect has dwindled, the son of one of the three leaders of the Trifect is murdered causing the slaughter to begin again.
Haern, the King's Watcher, must find an assassin known as the Wraith who has begun slaughtering those in power and and leaving the symbol of the Watcher.
