A Thread of Shadows

Then you’d better get good at running. Really fucking good.

Envyre Oakrest can lift a purse in a crowded square, forge a ledger in ten minutes, and vanish across Lysskald’s snow covered rooftops before anyone thinks to look up. What she has never done is kill for coin.

Yet, since Marlek Dahlin took over as guildmaster, the Spiders have traded pickpockets for assassins. Her mentor is dead. Darius, who trained at her side, has become Marlek’s favourite knife. And when Envyre finally says aloud what the whole Underweb is thinking, Marlek’s answer is a job no thief could survive.

Hunted by the guild, and the one man who knows every trick she has, she rides south with an infuriatingly cheerful knight at her side. But with every step closer to freedom, the harder it becomes to outrun the question she fears most:

If she is no longer a Spider, who is she?