The White Rose and the Black City

There aren't many career opportunities in the city of Leifsburg for an exiled princess, but Theresa Kuypens has found her niche solving the upper crust's little social difficulties. When a family financial crisis leads her to take on a more underhanded piece of work, Theresa's uneventful life quickly gets turned sideways. With her client dead and a seemingly superhuman killer on her trail, she finds herself on the run along with Petra Ivanova, premier cat burglar and Theresa's best friend, and Vincent Hendriks, a former member of Theresa's royal guard with a few enemies of his own. The three of them soon find themselves caught in a deadly struggle between a megalomaniacal wizard bent on remaking the world and a band of cultists who simply want to destroy it. Saving the world will take every trick they can dream up. Surviving to tell the tale will take a miracle or two.