Ten years after losing her love at the Battle of Drak-Anor, the sorceress Tasha has settled into a new life in the sleepy town of Curton. Once a prosperous mining community and home to a legendary witch, Curton's glory days are long past. The mines dried up and the Crow Queen vanished over a generation ago, leaving nothing for Curton but agriculture and clay for pottery. The slow pace of selling herbs from her apothecary seemed boring to some, but...