When a priest arrives to save Typhin's daughter from the plague, he believes his troubles to be over.
He's wrong.
They're just beginning.
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Tourmaline is a paladin - a Redeemer, newly sworn to the Lady's service. She has been asked to assist the Fell Seeker Exock, a hunter of the dead that do not rest. Together with the reluctant rogue Slynx, they seek to find out who - or "what" - is mutilating bodies and breaking souls in the shadows of the Delverness forest.