In the void between life and death hangs a mote of evil, the seed of an Arch-Mage banished from the realm of man. The spark festers in its eternity of gloom until its demon familiar breaths life into an empty husk and calls it back from oblivion.


Tass Harmon enjoys married life. No longer the freebooting, womanising romancer he once was, he is content . But contentment must be put aside for he is perhaps the only man capable of stemming the evil tide. His only hope is to raise the men and women of Clos Reyniere to arms, to ask them to put their lives on the line to save their world.

So begins another epic chapter in the chronicles of Tynash the Lake City and her faded empire.