The Road To Grandeur Brandt Trebor

The Road to Grandeur starts off with a bang when a 14-year-old thief named Jayde is running rooftop to rooftop with three people trying to kill her, and she has no idea why. She ends up dangling from a rooftop, but that's when an even shadier character appears.

Cameron meets his patient, Thaddeus Gumble, who is not very patient. Marie meets Sarah, Gumble's assistant. Jayde finds out little about the strange duo who have befriended her, but they might be more than they seem.

Esmeralda Smyle opened an inn in the shadiest of locations in the city of Grandeur. However, as an ex-enchantress, she has managed to keep the local riff-raff happy through a series of very clever spells. Three especially shady characters arrive at the inn to purchase a powerful weapon from an unknown character, who turns out to be very different than expected.

Sarah reminisces about the past few years of change. She used to live in a different country in the woods with her parents before a small army came and burned everything she knew to the ground. She then moved to Grandeur, where she became employed by a pompous nobleman. While there, she became entwined with a troop of pixies who continue to follow her around and count her as a part of their troop. But she has started down a dangerous road, and the pixies realize secrets about people wit...

Jayde confronts Dr. Sangre on the rooftop of his clinic, but it does not go as expected. Jayde's shady history is explored, as is the reason for her fascination with magic. Jayde learns that both Cameron and Marie might be more dangerous than expected.

Sarah cannot convince Thaddeus Gumble of the fact that Dr. Sangre might be a vampire. However, her discussions do not go overlooked by others in the town. The pixies get an impromptu lesson in "human," and Sarah gets a lesson in vampires.