All Cadma wants is to drink and sell the occasional potion. But when her shipments of alcohol, the source of her magic, are cut off she embarks on a journey alongside a cowardly knight.She finds herself accused of murder and in a world of deadly political intrigue. It was a world she thought she'd left behind, and Sir Thomas Wilhelm has dragged her right back into it.Struggling to get out and take the knight with her, Cadma is tricked into an unexpected apprentice and an ever deepening debt to a talking cat, all while trying to keep her secrets and her oaths....Until the magical murderer comes after her and her newfound friends.Can Cadma clear her name, train her apprentice, and fight sobriety long enough to find the killer?