Gamsin, thief and ex-acrobat, has the constabulary of Mishlow City breathing down her neck. After a narrow escape, she stumbles across rumours of dragon teasure in a faraway province and decides to try her luck finding it. What she discovers instead is a curse, and a man entwined with a dragon, each living half a life. What they need requires her will and fortitude, but she is a broken woman with scars of her own. How can she give the last prince of Ankoll something that she herself doesn't possess?