This is the second book in Trudi Canavan’s Black Magician series and in this book Sonea does what she was advised to do when she was being truth read and stays.

She has also been advised to tell no-one, but Rothien about what she had witnessed.

As she saw something that the High Lord had done. Though she didn’t know what it was that she saw at the time.

The Administrator that had truth read Sonea did discover that Sonea has seen the High Lord who was also his friend doing black magic: and the administrator knew too that he also had to be careful about what he did about it.

As they tried to keep it a secret from the High Lord for as long as they could though the High Lord eventually finds out that his friend knows.

The High Lord also knows that Rothien and Sonea know too, and the High Lord decides to take over as Sonea’s guardian.

He also forbidden Rothien and Sonea from talking to one another and told Sonea that she was to move in with him and pretty soon after that she was having dinners with him. As the High Lord knew after reading Sonea that she was scared of him. Also, the High Lord was aware that Sonea was quite strong.

He also discovers from one of Sonea’s teachers that she was being bullied but as he was now her guardian, he made some changes to her education.

Though it was her friend Dorien who gave her useful advice on how to deal with Regin who was the main person that was bullying her. As everyone knew that she came from the slums rather than one of the houses.