Gaylen and Arris are Knights for the monarch and the country, but even in that elite force, they are also magicians – magickers is the crude slang for them, but the sorcerers are ready to serve the greatest good. But they’ll do that fine fighting only after they stop fighting each other. When Master Knight Gaylen finds a gutter brat with magical talent and recruits her to train as a Knight Sorcerer, he doesn’t realize he has not only given her her young life’s dream, but found himself the best friend he could ever hope for. And young Arris, the tavern server’s brat, has not only made a friend, but will learn more than she ever realized she could. Enough, even, to stop a death.