Synopsis - Born with an awesome talent for magic tortured by the temptations to use it. Son of the sorcerer Ansaryon, Bron can find no peace. His soul has been won by the wolf god and the wolf’s thirst for death boils up inside him every time the magic threatens to break free. Appalled at what the future holds Bron runs away from Ansaryon and Halthris and into a world that teems with exotic peoples, new experiences and terrible danger. But he can never escape the curse of who he is and the power he holds. His one hope lies in the love of Mallaso, a woman who carries the pain of her slaughtered people. But his love for her leads him inexorably into a terrifying conflict witha man whose armies threaten the whole continent: the emperor Ba’alekkt. Supremely arrogant, supremely cruel, responsible for the slaughter of Mallaso’s people, and even nwo turning his avaricious eye towards the beauty of the Silver City.