Elasia Masters, Blaze to the other rogues in the Crooked Family, spent ten years learning how to become one of Fharizan's best cat burglars. While trying to steal a shipment of rare Mage Ink from the city's richest merchant, she is betrayed by her fellow thieves. Now face to face with the merchant, who was also her late father's best friend, the nineteen-year-old rogue will need every bit of help she can get from the Goddess of Luck if she doesn't want to do the Last Dance on gallows built just for her.