The Scottish outlaw Toby Strangerson, known as Longdirk, has used
gramarye, dark magic, to defeat the Fiend and save Europe from abject
slavery--but he has also made himself the most feared and envied man in
all of Italy.
The hordes are reorganizing and plan top sweep over the Alps once more
and retake their lost prize of power and conquest. Toby and his friend
Hamish struggle to unite the quarreling city-states into a single,
powerful force to resist the invasion in a world where no ally can be
trusted and traitors lurk in every shadow.
But there's more at stake than freedom and the destiny of a continent. A
woman's love is also hanging in the balance.