Huw Owyn is the last true bard in Waldeyn. Fleeing a burning city, Everything he ever loved in ashes behind him, Penniless and hunted, no place is safe. Abandoned and alone, eighteen-year old Huw the Bard must somehow survive It's two-hundred leagues to safety, And then two-hundred more. A lot can happen to a man on a journey like that.

Wynn Farmer is a simple man with a complicated life. A lightning-mage, it is his task to protect the people of Neveyah from the bizarre and dangerous creatures rumored to haunt the Northern trade road. When peaceful villagers begin vanishing, the trail of evidence leads Wynn and his companions high into the Mountains of the Moon, to a ruined castle, revealing a deadly secret. Danger, mystery, and dark prophecies, lie deep in a gauntlet of jagged peaks and deadly traps. Who will survive when the Bull God demands his due? The Gods are at War, and Neveyah is the Battlefield.