The Dead Man. Mennik Thorn, #0.5

Becoming a mage-for-hire hasn't quite turned out the way Nik Thorn hoped. Sometimes you just have to take whatever job is on offer, whether it's a missing pet, a curse to break, or tracking down a cheating husband. And sometimes it turns out to be something else altogether. And if theft, murder, and blackmail aren't enough, there's a high mage involved. This is not what Nik signed up for. Meet Nik Thorn for the first time in this prequel to Shadow of a Dead God.