Chronicles of Port Haven

Chapter 1: The Final Test
Three orphans who grew up together haven’t seen each other in years. Then they turn up on the same bench, waiting to take the Charter Guild’s final test. The job sounds simple: clear the rats out of two bakery cellars on Baker’s Pass, and don’t get distracted. But these rats eat stone, someone is watching the street, and the baker who wants them gone keeps telling the new recruits not to look in the corners.

Chapter 2: One Copper Star
The test is over, but the three new recruits brought something up from that cellar that they shouldn’t have kept. Now someone in Port Haven wants it back badly enough to pay for it, and Wex is the only one who knows where it is.

Chapter 3: Sage Gardens
Their first solo contract is a beast in Ravenwood: something tall and scaled that walks into a forest lake as if it lived there. It sounds simple enough. But then the three recruits come face to face with it and Emilie hears what’s going on inside its head.

Chapter 4: Plum Pie Weather
In the village of Gildingwood, the rain keeps time, the bakery makes nothing but plum pie, and a tiger has turned up on the village green. Nobody has been hurt yet. ...Yet...

Chapter 5: Winterforth
Emilie finally gets an answer from Oronos Silvermane: a riddle, sealed with a dragon, and a deadline. Meanwhile the three recruits have an easy courier job: carry four ruby gems across the city, and keep Emilie thirty feet away. Then a cart breaks loose at the top of a hill, and something blue and hungry spills into the street outside the forge.

Chapter 6: Cards and Knives
On a quiet night at the fish farm, Roice and Wex lie on a rooftop and wait for whatever comes up out of the pens. Across the city, Emilie has spent her savings to have her cards read by the woman who runs the Dusk House. Before the night is over, one of them will face a man who won’t put down his sword. Another will hear an offer from a stranger who says he has a great deal to tell.