If anyone told Linuviel lерре L’aэртэ, the junior keeper of knowledge and the closest kinsman of the Dark Forest’s lord, that he was being sent on an almost hopeless mission to the Grey Expanse, he would not have believed them. For a dark elf, that’s a certain death. But orders are orders. And Linuviel lерре L’aэртэ sets off for the most terrifying place on Lira, hoping that the wild chimeras won’t eat him on the way, the vampire mimics won’t drain him dry, and the master of those lands—who once renounced the dark-elven throne—won’t kill him the moment he sees him.
Of course, Linuviel doesn’t yet know that persuading Lord Torriēl to return to the Dark Forest is only half the task. The other half is surviving the Grey Expanse’s Guardians—more precisely, the Hounds… or, to be absolutely exact, a single Hound whose meeting may become the keeper’s end.