Volume three in Fantasy's most exciting series since Robert Jordan Reeling from the battle at Carris, the young king Gaborn Val Orden finds that he has lost the powers that let him protect his people. As he struggles to rid his land of reavers, he discovers that the creatures are more resourceful and terrifying than even he imagined. Desperate for any weapon that will aid him in this battle, all of his hopes come to rest upon the nine-year-old girl, Averan, the Wizardborn apprentice to the earth wizard Binnesman. Despite her fears, he must convince her to lead him in battle against the reaver lord of the underworld. Meanwhile the ailing Wolf Lord, Raj Ahten, learns that a reaver horde is decimating his own homeland, there he confronts his enemy, and finds that he must choose to strip himself of all humantiy or face ultimate defeat.
- ISBN10 0812570707
- ISBN13 9780812570700
- Publish Date 16 September 2002 (first published 14 March 2001)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 9 February 2022
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Tor Books
- Format Paperback (US Mass Market)
- Pages 512
- Language English