Drizzt has once again found Companions from Hull - dear friends and his beloved wife, but his hopes for a happy life are not destined to come true. The darkness does not want to release the drow from its claws. Taking advantage of the favor of the goddess Lolth, Highmother Baenre builds an insidious plan. Her plans are to subjugate the Ruling Council of Menzoberranzan, to destroy the cities of the Silver Swamps with the forces of the orcish kingdom, avenging the defeat of a hundred years ago, and most importantly, to finally deal with the hated Drizzt Do'Urden. Meanwhile, Artemis Entreri languishes in captivity of the dark elves. And no matter what differences may have existed in the past between the renegade drow and the assassin, Drizzt is determined to save his comrade from a fate that seems worse than death to him. The dark elf has no choice - he again leads the Companions who have returned to this world from Hull into the depths of the Underdark.