When their merchant father used what remained of his coffers to purchase the remote territory of the Basin, Lilah and Juli and Grayson find themselves far beyond the familiar bustle of the Capital. In the city, magic has begun to fade into myth; not so, in the Basin. On the edge of the Wilderness, the world is still teeming with Ice Spiders and Sleeping Stones and those gods-damned vora, tormenting the humans with their riddles. Something foul awakes...