New York: New American Library - ROC, (2010). SIGNED first edition - The first book in a new fantasy trilogy - "For Portier de Savin-Duplais, failed student of magic, sorcery's decline into ambiguity and cheap illusion is but a culmination of life's bitter disappointments. Reduced to tending the library at Sabria's last collegia magica, he fights off despair with scholarship. But when the King of Sabria charges him to investigate an attempted murder that has disturbing magical resonances, Portier believes his dreams of a greater destiny might at last be fulfilled." SIGNED on the title page. 464 pp. ISBN: 978-0451463111.