"It was just a game at the start . . . Adlai Bringer remembers going to the desert market with her father: the colorful tents, the wink of gold, and her father's shadow, black as night, as he sent it over to the stalls to steal whatever trinket she wanted. He called it the Shadow Game. After her father disappears, Adlai goes back to the market determined to find some trace of him, and stealing what she can with her shadow. Until one day she picks...

Kit Winter does not get caught. As the most infamous thief in America, Kit enjoys a carefree, transient lifestyle—or, he did, until someone slapped a pair of handcuffs around his wrists and offered him an impossible choice: Rot in prison or join the most dangerous division of the Darkmagic Investigation Agency, the Renegades. Kit’s pretty sure he chose wrong. The Renegades are the most elite fighters in the world—none more so than their legendary...