Gripping dark fantasy novel. Book one of two. (To be followed by Book Two: Ghost Rising.) When Manuela Dalmassie is taken from the beach in the aftermath of a shipwreck, by faceless phantoms that disappear with her into the mist, her brother Merrinth finds himself alone in a strange and terrifying country torn by civil war and terrorised by armies of invisible demons. Snatched from the jaws of death he finds shelter in the hospitality of a native, while many leagues south the phantoms present his sister to their master, the evil centaur chatelaine, Gryngolet. As an ancient prophecy begins to...