Vivian Lahey moved to the glittering capital city of Reinfell to escape from her past. But now it has followed her there. Her work as a thief has always been dangerous. When a friend from her previous life appears in an alleyway and pulls her into a network of espionage and politics inside the palace, her life reaches new levels of peril and urgency. Together with a team including a gentle prince, a cunning lady of the city, and a shadow-friend from her past, she infiltrates the court and works to uncover a plot that may endanger the whole city. As she uses abilities she has long kept hidden and pries deeper and deeper into the court to discover the danger hovering over her beloved city, she exposes secrets about her past and the city that may destroy the very life she has built.

My father usually stays away for days at a time locking himself away in his own world where he could create art out of the mirrors he took forever to make. But what happened to the little bits of leftover mirror that he couldn't use anymore? Well he gave those to me where I would keep them neatly stored in my special cabinet where I had started something of my own. A mirror that I was making out of tiny bits that everyone thought couldn't be used anymore. Then one day as I open the cabinet with one last piece to finish my puzzle I take the finished masterpiece down to my weary father. But once I make it down to a tear covered mother and a glass covered floor I realize that finishing my father's work was not as important as I had thought when I see it shatter before lifeless eyes.