You see, as a six-year-old, he was discovered inside a locked bank vault with no memory of his past, and nothing but a scrap of paper bearing his name. Who could possibly have gotten him into a locked vault if not mages or gnomes? Now at fourteen, Bran is at the center of an even greater mystery that started years before he was born and must surely explain his strange arrival in Dunce. It involves a deadly curse his mother created...and that her former masters are hunting for Bran to complete. Haunted by the spirit of his mother's master and living in a city where magic is illegal, Bran must somehow undo the unknown crimes of his past -