Book description
Things are going well for Alex Verus. He's on moderately good terms
with the Council, his apprentice is settling in and his shop in Camden
is gaining quite a reputation.
But when a mysterious woman bursts into the Arcana Emporium one
night with an assassin on her tail, Alex is thrown into a plot to
revive a long-forbidden ritual. His old enemies are after the secret,
as well as a Council mage named Belthas and a mercenary named Garrick,
and at least one of them is trying to get Alex killed - if he only
knew which.
He can see the future, but knowing who to trust is something else.
Benedict Jacka became a writer almost by accident, when at 19 he sat
in his school library and began writing in the back of an exercise book.
Since then he has worked for the civil service, studied philosophy at
Cambridge and been a bouncer, but has always found the time to keep
writing.
