Dark Star Trilogy Tome 1
Black Leopard, Red Wolf

"The child is dead. There is nothing left to know...". Tracker is a hunter, known in the thirteen kingdoms as one who has a nose - and he always works alone. But he breaks this rule when he joins a band seeking a lost child. His companions are strange and dangerous, from a giant to a witch to a shape-shifting Leopard, and each hides their own secrets. As they follow the boy's scent, from perfumed citadels to infested rivers to enchanted darklands, set upon by murderous foes, Tracker wonders : who is this mysterious boy ? Why don't people want him found ? And, crucially, who is telling the truth and who is lying ?