Just because he's part demon doesn't mean he's a bad guy.  Skel is studying to be a village healer when his uncle is brutally punished for loving the wrong woman.  After taking part of the punishment to save his uncle's life, Skel discovers that his growth is stunted and his magic is enhanced.  Along with his adopted sister, a witch who delves into magic so forbidden that even the demon spawn shun her, Skel will discover the key to saving their people.

In this second book of the Bards of Abadis series our heroes are ready to take the fight to the Empire that drove them out.  They cannot do it alone.  Rebel factions within the Empire are crucial to Skel and Rivkah's hopes of victory and of carving out new future for their people.  Will Skel's experience dealing with demons and hellish magic prepare him for the politics of an empire in turmoil?  He will need to augment his magic with a blade and with every ally he can f...

Having survived the intrigues of Sudgard, Skel and company set their sites on the Imperial capital of Dorian. This is the conclusion of the Bards of Abadis Trilogy.