Still learning to cope with a crippling injury, Mara Lendoran has given up the life of a mercenary for a new career as a merchant trader. But the ways of her past life refuse to be left behind as she and the hauflin Feldergrass cousins bring their first cargo to the dwarven city of Delverhame. Mara and her friends only want to sell their goods and make a decent profit, but they find themselves dragged unwittingly into a conspiracy within the dwarven city, one that could end up making their first trading venture their last.