New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second collaboration between these two authors, and the first in a series of fantasy novels set in the city-state Astreiant, a "late-Renaissance world where magic works, where astrologers and necromancers are the pundits and powerbrokers" and which is bracing itself for trouble that usually accompanies the Midsummer Fair. 384 pp. Dust jacket art by Kevin Eugene Johnson. ISBN: 0-312858442.