Leandra dies outside of Lothering. Garrett Hawke leads his siblings and Aveline Vallen to Kirkwall, only to be turned back at the gates when their uncle refuses to help them enter the city. They return to Ferelden and land in Amaranthine. A year and change later, the Grey Wardens arrive at Vigil's Keep, intending to rebuild the arling and root out the last of the darkspawn plaguing the land. The new Warden-Commander conscripts Anders, an old friend from the Circle Tower, but as a mage and an elf, she needs some outside help in dealing with unhappy nobles. Lucky for her, Varel knows just the man to help...

A tightly-wound Anders decides to give a phone sex hotline a try. The voice on the other end gives him more than what he expected.

Garrett Hawke is a gamer who's involved in the MMO THEDAS. He's got a crush on his guild's healer and it seems the feeling might be mutual. Only one problem. As Garrett's been playing a female warrior from the start, everyone thinks he's a woman. Now he has to figure out if he should come clean before the upcoming THEDAS convention.

Hawke is so pretty that when Anders sees him near The Blooming Rose he mistakes him for a prostitute

Merrill has learned of an ancient elven ritual that gets rid of spirits/demons from the host. But there is a cost: their memories