The bad girl of the magical underworld is back and badder than everSomeone wants Marla Mason dead. Usually thats not news. As chief sorcerer of Felport, someone always wants her dead. But this time shes the target of a renegade assassin who specializes in killing his victims over days, months, or even years. Not to mention a mysterious knife-wielding killer in black who pops up in the most unexpected places. To make matters worse, an inmate has broken out of the Blackwing Institute for criminally insane sorcerersa troubled psychic who can literally reweave the fabric of reality to match her own traumatic past.With her wisecracking partner Rondeau reluctantly in tow, Marla teams up with a love-talker whose dangerous erotic spells not even she can resist. Together theyre searching the rapidly transforming streets of Felport for a woman whos become the Typhoid Mary of nightmares, infecting everythingand everyoneshe touches with a chaos worse than death itself.From the Paperback edition.