From the publisher
After years as a court magician and inter-dimensional hero, Skeeve needed a rest. So he took some time off to study magik and relax…

A few months later three young female Prevect students show up with a note from Aahz requesting that Skeeve take them on as students and give them a “practical education”. Then Massha sent him a friend of hers and Guido’s to tutor, then Chumley sent someone, Markie sent her nephew, and before he knew it Skeeve’s sabbatical had turned into a teaching job. After the assassins attack, an unarmed bomb goes off, and a Manticore tries to eat them, the Khlad mage begins to believe that there is more going on than just a group of students wanting to learn magic.

There is!

Unknown to him, his students are preparing for a very deadly magical competition and you won’t believe where. Worse yet, it looks like the fix is in and not to the benefit of his students. Soon Skeeve learns the only way to save his students’ lives is for him to risk his own. publisher