Any day that starts with dragon arguments is going to be bad Kaylin returned from the West March in one piece. Now that piece is fraying. She s not at home in the Imperial Palace—and she never intends to be. All she wants is normal garden-variety criminals and a place of her own. Of course, normal in her new life involves a dragon as a roommate, but she can handle that. She can t as easily handle the new residents to the city she polices, because one of them is Nightshade s younger brother. On a night when she should be talking to landlords in perfectly normal buildings, she s called to the fief—by Teela. A small family disagreement has become a large, complicated problem: Castle Nightshade s latent magic is waking. And it s not the only thing.