"You worship a God. With a Power, you negotiate."-- Black Kath's Tally Book
When Marta's sorceress mother dies suddenly, it is the young and almost completely unprepared Marta who must assume the debt her mother owed to the Power called Amaet. With her mother's own magical servants in revolt and opportunistic enemies on the move, matters go from bad to worse. Armed only with her knowledge of the First Law and her mother's tally book, Marta...