It is a darkening world, trust is a hard commodity to come by, but King Adathor survived the treachery of the Turs and gained an uneasy victory at the Battle of Arrimar after Gorth the shapeshifter secured the Princess of Arrimar. Palathir leads the quest into the unknown lands of the Morlins to recover her, but great peril finds him first. Calathir has returned to the land of the living, an army of green warriors in tow known simply as the Four by Fours. Making matters still worse is a warrior like Adathor himself that has appeared in the east and seeks his head. The Curse of the Rodain continues to grow, but there is a crack in King Elkar's foundation, and it is growing. All the while Regent Sastro plots to destroy Arker and Silas by seeking great weapons of the past. Spring comes soon; what will Adathor find when he does finally return home, if he returns home at all? 128,000 words; 42 lines per page