Publisher's Synopsis
An invisible slasher hunts Castle Faldorrah, slaughtering servant girls and stealing their kidneys and hair. Only Nella, Risley Romlin's beloved, survived an attack which had left her battered in the snow, and soon the castle's people called for the young lord's head. Faldorrah's aging Castellan, Dubric, declared Risley innocent but, with the killer's dark magic tainting the food supplies, the castle's people remain convinced of Risley's guilt. Furious, they form a mob to bring him to justice even if they have to disassemble the castle to get to him. Dubric and Risley's brother Aswin, the Seer of Truth, hide Risley, Nella, and their knights in the castle cellars while they hunt the slasher, but Risley, desperate to protect Nella, flees right into the slavering mob. Attacked, injured, and unable to track the beast who had preyed upon the castle, Risley soon becomes overwhelmed helpless to watch Nella disappear into the slasher's magic. Risley has to escape the mob and rescue Nella. Somehow. Before the slasher kills her too. But that's tough to do when the man who kidnapped her is invisible. It's tougher still with a cabal of concerned citizens calling for your execution and a noose tightening around your neck.
