Assassin in training, Petra Graves, travels to Innsbruck, Austria in search of a terrifying creature known as a Boneblight. On locating and dispatching the beast, Petra discovers that the creature’s emergence into the Hallowed World isn’t a fluke, but rather has been orchestrated at the hands of a powerful rogue sorcerer. This novella is a prequel to the first book in the Petra Graves Chronicles, Blood Hunter. The events take place several years before the main storyline.