Solitary engineer Ceriel Bleek spends her days in the workshop and her nights in the pub until she invents something so incredible that it will finally make her go down in history – but probably not for very long.

With the wizards fearing for their place in the Counter Balance where they run the only long-distance travel bureau, the city's chairman with big plans for Lusona and together with a squad of incredibly unqualified personnel, she needs to save everything.