Publisher's Synopsis
The God Learner plan moves into its final, most desperate stage. With their rituals broken and their schemes crushed at every turn, the sorcerers of Jrustela plan to magically tear the secrets they need from the souls of the hidden Orlanthi cult. One way or another, war is coming to Dragon Pass - a secret war, a Shadow War - that will play out away from the eyes of mere mortals. The Imperial agents must stop the God Learners' final mystic rites else all the struggle and bloodshed so far will be for naught. In every battle there is a crucial moment: a fulcrum upon which all hope and despair balance. It is in that moment that the fate of each conflict is decided. That moment has come.
