The Fall of Ventaris

She had been Marina Kell...wealthy and wellborn, until a night of fire and a mysterious brass coin changed everything. She became the baker’s daughter…fallen and forgotten, until another brass coin changed her life once more. She is Duchess of the Shallows…the newest member of the secret society of thieves and spies known as the Grey. Yet even as she exorcises the ghosts of her old life, new enemies threaten from all sides. Her struggle to survive will take her from the temples of the imperial cults, through the workshops of the great guilds and finally to the court of the empress herself. And she will learn that in the Grey City, some ghosts are not so easily put to rest... (Sequel to "The Duchess of the Shallows")About the AuthorNeil McGarry and Daniel Ravipinto are, collectively, a computer programmer, afraid of heights, a former technical writer, a rabid Go-Go's fan, a board-game designer, a founding member of the Alan Turing Fan Club, an award-winning interactive-fiction author, a native Philadelphian, an ex-drummer, one heck of a party thrower, a pianist, from New Jersey, the holder of three degrees, an avid role-player, an improvisational actor, an uncle, a stand-up comedian, not particularly fond of flying, a video gamer, a lover of Halloween, a story-game/RPG developer, and an Ultimate Frisbee enthusiast. They are currently hard at work on the next installment of Duchess' story, The Ruling Mask.