Temple Hill (novel)

This is the second Forgotten Realms book by Drew Karpyshyn set in a series of stand-alone novels, called "The Cities." In this book, the main character Corin One Hand has been hired to protect a girl named Lhasha Moonsliver after receiving a beating in battle from an orog named Graal.

Publisher's Description
"Elversult, Site of Temple Hill.

Among the dark streets of the city move thieves and cutthroats. And they don't like independant operators like Lhasha Moonsliver. But when she hires a former fighter, now the town drunk, as a bodyguard, she gets more than she bargained for. Together they'll have to battle the thieve's guild, the Cult of the Dragon, and other, darker foes. And a fallen man will have to remember the proud warrior he once was."