In Barramar, everything is for sale, whether spells, weapons, or forged documents. But there's one thing you can't buy: a quiet life.

Padma knows this all too well. A former noblewoman, now a war refugee working as a courier, she tries to raise her daughter and keep a low profile. Except her latest delivery has painted a target on her back. Everyone wants it. Gangsters. Spies. Even the Temple of the Money God.

Money is precisely what Tanit wants. A former battle mage indentured to a crime lord, she works as an enforcer and drowns her sorrows in opium and violence. But between her boss's lies, the arrival of her former commander, and that uptight aristocrat who disappeared with her last delivery, she is facing a gang war.

Welcome to Barramar, a cosmopolitan port where magic is tolerated, murder is negotiable, and loyalty is always for sale. In this city, even the houses have opinions, and the one package nobody should have opened has just vanished into thin air.