What would you do to survive? To ensure those you are responsible for survive? Quinn has asked herself that many times over the years, and every time the answer frightened her more and more. Now, at the tender age of eighteen, she has few moral boundaries left to cross. Pickpocketing, stall snatching, mugging, breaking and entering, no one is safe from her sticky fingers, but it keeps her and her siblings alive. But when the triplets get sick and her brother is caught stealing, desperation pushes her to steal more. What will happen when she pickpockets the wrong person? As she is dragged into the middle of a battle she didn't even know was being fought, secrets that her dead parents kept from her begin to surface, and she faces the hardest choice of her life.

The twelve races have lived together in relative harmony for half a millennium. But tensions are rising, and a war is brewing. Ancient legends of a relic with the power to end all wars are resurfacing, and people are beginning to seek it out. Two teams are put together, working against each other in a desperate attempt to reach the relic first. Demons, goddesses, humans and mages will clash with vampires and dragons. Friends will be lost. Enemies will be gained. And not everyone will make it out alive.