Publisher's Synopsis
In the not-too-distant future, all life on Earth is wiped out by what history would call a meteor - if history could record it. Some are saved, and 2000 years later they return to begin again. This - by ancient calendars - is the fourth cycle of evolution. It is the last chance humankind has to survive.
Now, after civilization is reborn with swords and kings, and magic is rediscovered on what is left of the American continent, that which man calls evil makes another play for the souls of the chosen. This will be the final play, for evil has found a way to bend the rules, to use the human mind and it's power to bring what the ancients would call Hell into the physical realm of man.
There is no religion. All the prophets are forgotten. There is nothing to guide or save humankind from the creature that has haunted their psyche since their beginning. The human race is on their own and that which the ancients called evil will seize their ignorance in a final coup of their immortal souls.
The dead myths of old will rise again...
The living will see them...
And all that possess the gift of life will mourn forever at their loss...
