The Companions are back, and so are their enemies in the second volume
of the Lost Chronicles.
Kitiara discovers that a former lover, Tanis Half-elven, and his friends
were responsible for the death of Highlord Verminaard. This revelation
puts Kit in danger, for Emperor Ariakas hears of the connection and
suspects Kit of having arranged the assassination. He orders his witch,
the exotic Iolanthe, to spy on Kit, who clinches her own doom by
becoming obsessed with finding Tanis, convincing Ariakas that she is
indeed a traitor. But Kit is not one to take a sentence of death easily.
Kit's rival, Laurana, begins her own journey to destiny, as she travels
to Icereach with Sturm, Flint, Tasslehoff, and three Solamnic knights
led by Sir Derek Crownguard. The knights are on a quest for the fabled
dragon orb that will be the salvation of Solamnia. What none of them
know is that they are all being led into a deadly trap laid for them by
the winternorn, the dark elf wizard Feal-Thas.
But it is Kitiara who faces the greatest challenge. To save herself, she
vows to Takhisis that she will spend the night in Dargaard Keep, the
dread castle of the death knight, Lord Soth. As she and Skie fly to
challenge the death knight, Kit is well aware that in three hundred
years, not one person who has ever faced Lord Soth has survived the
ordeal.
