Fatal Revenant Book Two of The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant " begins where The Runes of the Earth ended: Linden Avery watches from a balcony while Thomas Covenant & her adopted son Jeremiah ride desperately toward Revelstone. But their reunion has vast consequences which she could not have foreseen. Soon she is betrayed by the people whom she most needs to trust. Transported deep into the Land's past she is forced to confront mysterious strangers legendary heroes & ancient evils & to stand alone against the malevolence of the Despiser's minions. Abandoned in Garroting Deep the most bloodthirsty of the Land's long-dead forests she reaches a fearsome decision: she determines to reshape reality in an attempt to end the Despiser's evil & her son's suffering. However her purpose requires her to find Loric's krill a weapon abandoned among the Hills of Andelain millennia ago. & she needs the aid of friends & allies who will turn against her if she reveals her intent. Attacked by enemies old & new & harried by strange beings with ambiguous agendas she strives toward Andelain. But the ravenous skurj are rising & all of her actions appear to serve her worst foes."