Charris, Trinh, and Ursa have managed to work together long enough to defeat the evil Priestess and her hive-mind robot army, the Surrogate. They journey back to the village of Clifton to reunite with their guild, but once there, they discover that the Priestess may not be defeated after all, and a much larger threat may be looming. A secret from Ursas past threatens to break the fragile trust between the three mages, but they must overcome their differences and work together if they stand a chance of surviving the coming darkness.
MK Reed is the author of the graphic novels Americus, The Cute Girl Network, Palefire, and Science Comics: Dinosaurs. She also writes and draws the webcomic About A Bull. Her work has appeared in anthologies like Papercutter, Chainmail Bikini, The Big Feminist But, and the Swedish magazine Galago. Americus was the winner of NAIBAs 2012 Carla Cohen Free Speech Award and was a 2011 American Booksellers for Childrens New Voices title. MK lives in Portland, Oregon, with her very tall husband.
