Har’s world has lost its most valuable thing—knowledge. Everything that was ordinary and familiar a thousand years ago now seems like a fairy tale. For the miserable scraps of the great art of the past, magicians wage bloody wars. The most terrible and merciless war has lasted for five centuries between those who rule the world— the Walking Ones—and the Cursed. Darkness and light, necromancy and healing, are intertwined into a deadly tight knot that destroys everyone who dares to touch it. Ness and Laen challenge the bearers of the Gift to save their lives.
What will be at stake in their game—conscience, love, money, knowledge, immortality?..