Synopsis -An innocent excited boy, a prince and heir, takes his first journey to the city. It is like nothing he imagined. Hands pound against his carriage: voices call for a coin, Sir just one, spare me some money, sir, I haven’t eaten in days. The streets teem with merchants in velvet robes, magicians, half mad preachers, with life and colour and noise. He doesn’t want to miss any of it. But it is the last journey of his life as a prince. Soon he will be abandoned and declared dead. Soon with survival and what will be the driving force of his life: the quest to recover his stolen inheritance, his usurped throne. His home. A story of cities and palaces, of power hungry lords and ladies scheming inside a magically threatened land...Intricate, compelling.