A young girl must hurry to solve the murder of an important man before the killer's actions lead to the destruction of her homeland. Only eleven years old, Pingzi Po worries about the secret she has shared with a dragon Despite being a demon queller, Pingzi doesn't know how to recognize a demon when she sees one, much less quell one. Even worse, Pingzi is the only demon queller in the entire Far East, and there's no one who can teach her what she needs to know. But faced with the urgency of solving a murder, Pingzi believes the killer must be a demon. She's determined to find and expose him. When Pingzi and her dragonslayer Benzel track down the clues that can reveal the murderer, everything goes wrong. Soon, Pingzi finds herself in danger. Frightened and alone, she struggles when the city that once celebrated her arrival now turns against her. Pingzi struggles to escape immediate danger ... but how long can she elude an unknown killer before she must face the events that will threaten her nation?