Two weeks ago, Oriana Paredes left the Golden City heading for her home on the Ilhas das Sereias. No one has seen her since.

Duilio Ferreira desperately wants to find her, but has no idea where to start looking. He doesn't know anyone in her people's government, and doesn't know any sereia exiles in The Golden City. Even so, his secret seer's gift tells him he needs to find her before it's too late.

Inspector Joaquim Tavares has a bizarre new case that he wants Duilio to help him solve, girls simply dropping dead in the worst parts of the city, with no sign to show how they died. Atop that, it seems that someone has killed two non-human girls, something the police would normally not acknowledge. Duilio feels sure there must be some tie between the two strings of deaths.

Only by working with Sympathizers in the city-those who secretly aid non-humans despite the ban prohibiting their presence there-and a handful of non-humans themselves, Duilio and Joaquim discover where Oriana has been taken and why.... and how her disappearance relates to the dead girls.

**This book is a second edition of a previously published book**