William Lashner is a former criminal prosecutor with the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. and a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His novels have been published worldwide and have been nominated for two Shamus Awards, a Gumshoe Award, an Edgar Award, and been selected as an Editor's Choice in the New York Times Book Review. When he was a kid, his favorite books were The Count of Monte Cristo and any comic with the Batman on the cover. Elizabeth Webster is his first series for kids.

Elizabeth Webster and her friends return to the Court of Uncommon Pleas, this time seeking due process and freedom for Keir, a twelve-year-old boy who mysteriously does not seem to age.