A nobleman and a thief join forces to reclaim justice in a city of power and secrets.
When Lord Aiden buys Dare out of prison, the thief finds himself indebted to a member of the ruling class he has hated all his life. To redeem this debt, he swears Lord Aiden seven days of serviceand rapidly finds himself caught up in a deadly game of vengeance.
Lord Aiden is a man of vast wealth and high rank. Yet he lives as a near outcast. When a commoner girl is found dead, the victim of dark sorcery, he turns all his considerable intellect towards finding her killer.
Working together, the two follow a trail of death from the lowest of dockside taverns to the highest levels of society. In a decadent portside city where deception is the norm, Dare must learn the hardest lesson of alltrust.