The Knighthood Trials are supposed to be hard. They aren’t supposed to be murder... Abyowith is on her way to the great city of Abraniotok to become an initiate of the Knights of the Exculpatory Order. She can ride, shoot, and swordfight, and if she has some trouble using magic, well, expects she can overcome that.She did not expect to lose everything and need rescue by the very knights she wanted to join. Or that Marfolio, Captain of the mysterious Stalkers, would take an interest in her. Or that she would fail the knights’ magical ability test.And she certainly wasn’t expecting to find one of her fellow Initiates brutally murdered.Now, with suspicion falling on her, and her future in the Knights at stake, Abyowith must pass her magic test, learn what the Captain of the Stalkers wants, and discover who is killing her fellow initiates before the mrderer comes after her...