Volume 2 of The Timura Trilogy
Safar Timura thinks he is safe. His enemy Iraj Protarus - once his blood-oath brother - is dead, his kingdom in ruins. With the half-demon child Palimak, he lives in exile in the fabled Valley of the Clouds, seeking a solution to the mysterious forces poisoning his world.
Then his mountain paradise is invaded by four giant wolves: shape changers intend on murdering him and everyone he loves.
Iraj Protarus is back from the dead, with powerful magic and a horde of demon warriors to support him. Now Safar must flee across magic-blasted lands, dragging a rickety caravan of a thousand helpless villagers behind him. In the end he must enter into the darkest contract ever conceived by man or demon to win the freedom of his people.
