Introduction: Running a new detective agency in the gritty city of Gilbratha is normally one tough task, even for the likes of the unlicensed sorcerer, Frank Poe.  But when three factions show up all at once to the August Agency’s door—wiling to pay for Frank’s services to find the notorious fugitive blood sorcerer and thief, Siobhan Naught—business is suddenly booming.   But only if he can find her….With his young protege Marie to aid him, and his raven Frigg to advise him, Frank takes on the case.  That is, if his curse doesn’t get in the way of the job, the crime syndicates don’t interfere … or their own past doesn’t catch up to them....