He’s ready for a life of peace. But a new, tremendously powerful enemy threatens everything, including the strands of the Skein itself... After decades of fighting, Warden Maels Raptori, the last of his kind, is prepared to leave a lifetime of violence and enjoy the tranquility he’s helped bring about. His final mission for the Guild Guard takes an unexpected turn, however, and he finds himself on the trail of a mysterious new enemy more threatening than any before. As the destruction escalates, and the body count rises into the tens of millions, he, his lifemate, and a dangerous new ally with her own secrets and threats, find themselves constantly a step behind their elusive antagonist–until the hunters becomes the hunted. Captured, tortured, and crippled, he draws on his lifetime of skills and experience to escape his tormentors and bring word the most destructive spell ever cast–the one that destroyed his own race–has been reconstituted. Now, to save those he loves, Maels will make the ultimate sacrifice, but even death will provide no escape...
