As the chaos of the Sundering rages around her, young warlock Farideh
faces a more personal turmoil wrought by a deal she made with a devil
years ago. Hoping to protect her twin sister, she leaves everything she
holds dear to assist a wizard in a scheme that pits the devils of the
Nine Hells against the gods above.
But when Farideh casts the spell to enter the wizard's remote
mountaintop fortress, she picks up a stowaway--a Harper agent named Dahl
who isn't so inclined to follow devilish demands. Dahl attempts to
escape only to run into a village of odd people, lurking behind an
impenetrable wall.
Forced to gaze into the villager's souls, Farideh points out the ones
who seem different, only to watch as the wizard's guard carts them off
to fates unknown. Are these villagers or prisoners? Are they blessed or
doomed by the gods? As the wizard's guessing game proves more and more
diabolical, Farideh resolves to unravel his secrets--even if it means
she'll lose her own soul to the Nine Hells.
In this third book of the Sundering series kicked off by R.A. Salvatore
and the dark elf Drizzt, SCRIBE award-winning author Erin M. Evans
thrusts her signature character Farideh into a maelstrom of devilish
politics and magical intrigue that will have far-reaching implications
for the future of the Forgotten Realms(R).
