**In his acclaimed Codex Alera novels, #1 New York Times bestselling
author Jim Butcher has created a fascinating world of elemental magic.
Now, as enemies become allies, and friends become bitter foes, a danger
beyond reckoning looms for all...
**
After two years of bitter conflict with the hordes of invading Canim
warriors, Tavi of Calderon, now Captain of the First Aleran Legion,
realizes that a peril far greater than the Canim exists--the mysterious
threat that drove the savage Canim to flee their homeland.
Tavi proposes attempting an alliance with the Canim against their common
foe, but his warnings go unheeded. For the Senate's newly-appointed
military commander has long desired to wipe out the Canim "scourge," and
their slave allies.
Now, Tavi must find a way to overcome centuries-old animosities if an
alliance is to be forged, and he must lead his legion in defiance of the
law, against friend and foe--or none will have a chance of survival...