Description Shipping & Returns Reviews Description This is a second-hand, used copy of this book. Please check condition in product details before ordering. Used – Very Good: Shows some small signs of wear – but no tears – on either binding or paper. Used – Good: Average used worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Used – Fair: Worn book that has complete text pages but may have some small defect like slight tears. Will be noticeably worn. Darkness has fallen on the lands of the sun as an army of misshapen fey spill out from beyond the Shadowline. At their head is Yasammez, dark creature of nightmare. A furtive bargain was struck at the gates of Southmarch and the castle was spared, but centuries of enmity will not be so easily appeased. Meanwhile Barrick, heir to Southmarch and cursed with madness, has crossed the Shadowline into the realm of his people’s ancient enemy. There are stranger things than death here – stranger and older. Much further south, shadow is also falling over the reign of the Autarch, god-king and supreme ruler. Quinnitan, junior wife, must flee the royal household or die, her greatest secret as yet hidden even from herself. Ancient blood flows through her veins and she will become a unique weapon in the fight against her greatest terror. And beyond the ken of all but a chosen few, the gods are awakening and the world is changing … Shipping & Returns Reviews