The first book in the Broken Pillar series, we journey to Pen’dil Zenn, where power is gifted by food, its use tightly controlled by the Masked Ones, state sorcerers who never show their faces – and pay an enormous price as they slowly starve to death, unable to eat the foods they once burned for magic. The story follows Teros, a gifted young magician trying to stay free of the palace, and 732, the lethal sorcerer trying to catch him.