Chaos fills the world as the followers of the severe Black Road creed have overwhelmed the Glas Valley and threaten Kolkry and Vaymouth, the political strongholds of the True Bloods. The mad rage of Aeglyss the na’kyrim, once the tool of the invaders, has now taken over the hosts of the Black Road and threatens to engulf everyone. Can Kanin, a thane of the Black Road Bloods, find a way to stop the half-blood Aeglyss, whom he helped unleash and who cost him the life of his sister?