<p>Some promises are too good to be true...</p><p><br></p><p>Detective Zane Vrexon and former professor of magic Alyssa Benedictus return to the ashy, smoggy streets of Alviun to investigate a doctor whose prosthetic limbs seem to move like magic.</p><p><br></p><p>Possibly illegal magic.</p><p><br></p><p>So when a friend's grandmother gets involved with the doctor, Zane and Alyssa must uncover the doctor's secret.</p><p>But doing so will require help from Zane's ever-present Shadow, a troubled entity who knows more about what's powering the limbs than he lets on.</p><p><br></p><p>And the doc's endgame is darker than Zane and Alyssa could have ever imagined.</p><p><br></p>