Ace of Shades

If Im not home within two months, Im dead. Thats the warning Ennes mother leaves for her before going off to visit friends in New Reynes the so-called City of Sin. But when far longer than two months have gone by and her mother still hasn’t returned, soon-to-be debutante Enne Saltadecides to leave her finishing school in conservative, wealthy Bellamy not to mention her reputation behind to follow her mothers trail. Her only clue? A mysterious letter from her mom,sent a month after she left, mentioning a “Mr. Levi Glaiyser.”

Levi Glaiyser, it turns out, is a young con man in desperate need of cash. He reveals that Enne’s mother was a renegade journalist, an undercover writer for a newspaper that still supported the old monarchy brutally destroyed in a revolution 25 years prior. Enne and Levi find themselves reluctantly aligned, and search sends this unlikely duo through glamorous casinos, illicit cabarets, and into the clutches of a ruthless Mafia donna. But as Levis enemies close in on them,Enne finds herself slowly surrendering to the City of Sin and to all its vicious secrets…