The final part of the trilogy. Ancient darkness awakens and breaks loose into freedom. Darkness in the hearts of the vendari—ancient servants, hunters, ordinary people. And there is no way out. It seems like the end… Only somewhere far away a baby is crying—born into the world, a girl, a vendari female, born after long millennia since the vendari males exterminated the females of their kind. And only the baby can restore the deranged world of night to the natural balance of forces.