A dead sorceress clings to life. A philandering bastard must save a kingdom. A god of dragons will burn them all... Mershayn has a host of problems. The woman he loved was brutally slain. His kingdom was stolen by a usurper. The dragon god has sworn to annihilate humankind. And Wildmane, the only one capable of stopping the god, has vanished. Now Mershayn must take his kingdom back, find Wildmane, and preserve the sanity of the woman he loves, a threadweaver so powerful she has brought her own corpse back to life. But first, he's going to have to get out of his prison cell...