Ten years ago, the Kinslayer returned from the darkness. His brutal
Yorughan armies issued from the pits of the earth, crushing all
resistance, leaving burnt earth and corruption behind. Thrones toppled
and cities fell. And then he died. Celestaine-one of the heroes that
destroyed him-has tasked herself with correcting the worst excesses of
the Kinslayer's brief reign, bringing light back to a broken world. With
two Yorughan companions, she faces fanatics, war criminals and the
Kinslayer's former minions, as the fragile alliances of the War break
down into feuding and greed. The Kinslayer may be gone, but he cast a
long shadow: one from which she may never truly escape.