Makennan Novantumus, a sorcerer by birth, blood and craft, has already endured horrors far beyond those of temporal imaginings. Now he ranges even deeper into deific realms of manipulating betrayal as the tide of stakes continues to rise His goddess Vishanti, Lady of all Magic and Keeper of the Veil, is restored to her domains of Conjurey because of this mage's enduring love and thrice-cursed refusal to give surrender. Now he is drawn into a web of lies and usury surpassing that of any dark elven Matron from the depths of Everdeep, homeland to his eternal ally and adversary Arrinae...