Night of the Flames (Tremontaine Season 3 Episode 4)

Swordplay, scandal, and sex—welcome to the world of Tremontaine, a glittering new entry in Ellen Kushner's classic Riverside series. This is the 4th episode in the third season of Tremontaine, a 13-episode serial from Serial Box Publishing. This episode written by Joel Derfner. As the city celebrates, Micah witnesses as a crime. Kaab and the other Kinwiinik leaders greet the Inspector who could change the balance of power amongst the trading families. Diane obtains a valuable piece of information about Basil Halliday’s wife. Rafe and Reza meet. Welcome to Tremontaine, where ambition, love affairs, and rivalries dance with deadly results. A Duchess whose beauty is matched only by her cunning; a handsome young scholar with more passion than sense; a foreigner in a playground of swordplay and secrets; and a mathematical genius whose discoveries herald revolution when games of politics begin, no one is safe. Keep your wit as sharp as your steel in this world where politics is everything, and outcasts are the tastemakers.