Warden Merribelle Stanhope and her husband, Jack Chandler, have arrived at the gates of the City, bustling heart of the State and the greatest metropolis in the world. Almost immediately, everything goes wrong: they lose all their money, their patron, Lady Alyce, is nowhere to be found, and their precocious daughter, Aisling, wants a kitten However, much darker forces are at work: there has been no rain for months from an unnaturally cloudless sky . A street gang called the Instigators are fomenting trouble among the poor, an ancient wickedness asserts itself among the Immortals of the Committee, and a murderous figure stalks the night, mutilating anyone it encounters
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