Welcome to the City of Dragons! A city that is very difficult to get into, but even more difficult to escape from its iron claws. A city that keeps secrets that can shake the foundations of civilization. Secrets that have rested in the darkness of oblivion for centuries. Secrets that perhaps would have been better off never seeing the light of day. Professor Stanton's student arrives in Westernadan against her will and is immediately confronted with a shocking crime - in the mountains, on the way to her new home, she discovers the body of a girl killed with inhuman cruelty . Who could commit such a terrible crime? Why did the police instantly close the case, effectively accusing Miss Vaerti herself of murder? And why does the mayor of the city, Lord Arnel, to whom all the circumstantial evidence points, remember nothing about the night when his fiancee died? Miss Annabelle Vaerty begins her own investigation.