The crooked paths and choices of a love triangle will change the course of a family's history when the regent's natural daughter and heir are discovered to be an unwanted bastard. Driven from home and homeless. There was a pact sealed with a lich. Ichichos roamed the streets of Chabone. Muir's troops marched through the plague. Freed from the hangman's clutches, Richard Morgan was recovering from the spell cast by the sorcerers. How time ran out. The sorceress who walked among the wolves was on the run from the Black Order and the Corsair Armada.