The war with the Deep Kings is coming to an end, and it seems that people are losing it. Terrible red rains torture the earth, every day new monsters appear from Morok, and even the immortals learn what it is like to die. The deep kings are growing stronger and are preparing to strike the final, decisive blow. But Rihalt Galharrow has no time for that now. He's gone too far into Morok. A terrible desert has grown into him, changed him, and now the ghosts of the past haunt Richalt everywhere. And when the few surviving Blackwing captains venture into the darkness on one last mission that could change everything, the shadows of the dead will follow them.