Kembral Thorne is spending a few precious hours away from her newborn, and she's determined to enjoy herself at the year-turning ball.
But when the guests start dropping dead, Kem has no choice but to get to work.
She's a member of the Guild of Hounds, after all, and she can't help picking up the scent of trouble.
Especially when her professional and personal nemesis, notorious cat burglar Rika Nonesuch, is also on the prowl. At the heart of the mayhem is a mysterious clock that sends the ballroom down into strange and otherworldly new layers of reality every time it chimes.
As the party plunges through increasingly dangerous versions of their city, Kem will have to rely on her wits - and Rika - to unravel the mystery before catastrophe is unleashed on their world.
