As you know, history tends to repeat itself - in other circumstances and with other characters. Here again a sorceress from a family of forensic magicians and a dragon meet, and again they are expected to investigate crimes committed with the help of magic. Only this is no longer Flossia Naren, but her daughter Fergia, and not the dragon Garresh, but his nephew Weyrish, and this is not happening in Arasten, but in sultry Admar, where the climate itself is not conducive to haste and decisive action. But the shadow of a dragon-destroying curse has already fallen on the hot sands, which means that Weirish will have to shake off his bliss and laziness to try to ward off trouble from his tribe, and Fergia will have to fight for a place under the hot sun to prove that women can cast magic and think logically no worse than men.