The City of Splendors: A Waterdeep Novel

This book is the fourth and final book in The Cities series. The series has many authors, most of whom were new to Forgotten Realms fiction, but the last book was written by the famous Ed Greenwood and Elaine Cunningham.

"In the streets of Waterdeep, conspiracies run like water through the gutters, bubbling beneath the seeming calm of the city's life. As a band of young, foppish lords discovers there is a dark side to the city they all love, a sinister mage and his son seek to create perverted creatures to further their twisted ends.

And across it sprawls the great city itself: brawling, drinking, laughing, living life to the fullest.

Even in the face of death."