From Darnell, all the animals fled. The people who didn’t follow them wear a mark of a mad eye on their souls. For revenge, Victor is ready to serve an ancient creature locked away at the bottom of a well—but he couldn’t foresee the consequences: memories of life before the Keepers returned to him, memories that had been erased for no reason.
Heid is hunted by both the living and the dead. His only chance to escape a cruel fate is to help the master of birds open the Furnace of the Forebears. Their paths converge in the fortress of Bagortt: one must take a life, the other—an artifact. How fragile will the alliance of a wizard and a thief be?