The mighty warrior Hawkril, the beautiful sorceress Embra, and the crafty thief Craer must forge new alliances in their roles as overdukes of Aglirta as the kingdom is threatened by a mystical berserker plague that is promoting anarchy among the citizenry while serpentine acolytes move in the shadows to try and resurrect a new Serpent.
Will a new Dragon rise to vanquish it? If so, who will it be, and can it avoid the fate of its predecessor?

Ed Greenwood lives in Colborne, Ontario, and works full-time as a librarian. He is an active freelance game designer and has written several best-selling novels in the Forgotten Realms™ fantasy setting he created.

Earphones Awards recipient Simon Vance was born in England and worked for the BBC for ten years as a radio news announcer and as a narrator for the Royal National Institute for the Blind in London. Besides narrating audiobooks, he is involved in numerous stage-acting projects in the United States and Europe.