The Fall Of Ventaris

Marina Kell was a noble, then a baker's orphan, and then a thief, and she is now the Duchess of the Shallows and the newest member of the Grey, a secret society of thieves and spies.

Her fight to survive takes her from the temples of the imperial cults through the workshops of the great guilds to the court of the empress herself, in a mix of guild politics, sabotage, undercity exploration and heists, against the background of the War of the Quills. The second Grey City novel by Neil McGarry and Daniel Ravipinto.