Publisher's Synopsis
Duty, destiny or death are the paths a young sixteen-year-old guardsman, named Kosai, must choose. The country Tessír is suffering from a great economic depression, the worst of which is felt in the capital city Noiknaer, a city known for schools of trade and higher learning. Government sanctioned caravans travel by secret trade routes across the country to collect and distribute food for the poor. The secret routes are being compromised, and nomadic tribes are ransacking the caravans, resulting in starvation for many citizens in Noiknaer. Kosai is sent to the School of the Faye, where the trade routes are written up, to find whoever is leaking the trade route information and bring them to justice. But Kosai learns more than this school and his mission entails. At this school, Kosai learns that a former headteacher named Vilheim who murdered other instructors, almost destroyed the school, and nearly killed Kosai in a recent caravan escort, is hunting again. It is at the school that Kosai learns that he is the only one who can kill Vilheim. Kosai must choose to learn to stop Vilheim or find the individual leaking the trade routes. Each day Kosai fails to make a choice, more people die, and making the wrong choice could lead to his own death.
