"My mother was the one to teach me about Magic; furtively in dark shadows. She taught me many things that year, about light and dark, and how to hide in illusions. But then, that was the year the Seekers came."Myanna is a third-generation merchant, set to take over her father's legacy. The only thing standing in her way appears to be politics: the regional warlords are renewing their battle against Magic and those who practice it. And as Myanna and her father know, any war is bad for business.An illusionist herself, and disguised as "Mick," her father's fictitious son, Myanna strives to clean up the mess left by civil unrest and those who hunger for power--only to find herself in a mess all of her own.Caught between good, evil, and fanatics who seem to have taken a side of their own, Myanna is in a world where enemies become allies, and friends betray friends. It is a world where nothing is as it seems, but is instead wrapped in illusion.