At the Order of the Glass Lantern's Choosing, I was about to give my last greenstone token to Owen Hart, the white-robed candidate everyone expected to become a hero, when blood-red words flashed across my sight: Give it to him. Hurry. I obeyed—and then I saw Jude Mercer, the disgraced young man blamed for the fire that killed my sister, waiting alone at the edge of the hall. The council wanted Owen. It wanted Jude gone. I took them both to my crumbling watch house, certain I could keep two apprentices alive long enough to learn the truth. But when the Order began turning their rivalry into a public spectacle, I had to decide what I was willing to lose to stop it. Could I trust the boy everyone called a villain and still protect the one they had chosen as their hero?