Others were more professional, holding torches and shouting offers for lodging and jobs. Many onshore searched for friends and relatives, yelling, jumping, waving arms-chasing the attention of someone. The newly arrived moved hesitantly, causing congestion. Used to the rhythms of a pitching deck, he struggled to keep his feet on the stationary dock amidst the jostling scramble. Hadrian couldn’t see much of anything in the lantern-lit chaos surrounding the pier, just a mass of faces, people shoving to get away from the gangway or get nearer to the ship. The bag-his only bag-was torn from his hand. Hadrian Blackwater hadn’t gone more than five steps off the ship before he was robbed. But it isn’t gold or jewels that the old wizard is after, and if he can just keep them from killing each other, just might do it The Crown Tower is the impregnable remains of the grandest fortress ever built and home to the realm’s most prized possessions. Together they must steal a treasure that no one can reach. Hadrian Blackwater, a warrior with nothing to fight for is paired with Royce Melborn, a thieving assassin with nothing to lose.
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