In this installment of the Alex Verus novels our hero has to revisit his shameful past as the brother of a girl he helped kidnap when he was an apprentice to a dark mage finds him hell bent on bloody revenge.
The man has a band of magical vigilante allies out to kill dark mages and between them they are deadly so Alex is struggling to avoid them while also trying to find out what happened to the girl.
The book brings up difficult moral dilemmas and situations where there is no easy or ‘good’ answer.
Sarah Wray Writer 