What unites the twelve-year-old orphan Moshka Mai and the high-flying swindler Eponymy Klent? A love of adventure and books that puts them at the center of a massive power struggle in the city of Mandelion. By whose will are militant pamphlets distributed? Where is the illegal printing press? Who is trying to pit the guilds of Keyholders and Scribes against each other? Moshka and Clent are looking for answers to these questions, all the while trying to fool each other around their fingers. And if they fail, a sad fate awaits not only the clever couple, but the whole city. Welcome to the world of spies and smugglers, warring guilds and crazy rulers, to the world of breathtaking adventures - to the Broken Kingdom and its capital Mandelion!