The world was nearly destroyed but now knows hope again At the end of Memory Sorrow & Thorn Ineluki the Storm King an undead spirit of horrifying demonic power came within moments of stopping Time itself & obliterating humankind He was defeated by a coalition of mortal men & women joined by his own deathless descendants the Sithi In the wake of the Storm King's fall Ineluki's loyal minions the Norns retreat north to Nakkiga an ancient citadel which holds a priceless artefact known as The Heart of What Was Lost They are pursued by the army of Duke Isgrimnur who is determined to wipe out the Norns for all time The two armies will soon clash in a battle so strange & deadly so wracked with dark enchant-ment that it threatens to destroy not just one side but quite possibly all