This is the second book of the 'World-A-Way' series. The bondsmen of Midway and the 'long-lived' of Retreat are facing evil, as never before. Venn, the chosen of The Deep is approaching and it falls to the younglings of the 'new-blood' to face the threat of The Enforcer - as was their 'legacy' - decreed, by The Blue Pool, at the time of their birth. But Venn summons the 'shadow-forms' It remains to be seen how The Way will respond to this and how the younglings can evert defeat such creatures of evil.