As the power of the Endlords grows, the world begins to destabilize. The Great Want spills its bounds, threatening to destroy the City on the Edge of the Abyss. Ash March, fearing for her unborn baby, leaves the Heart of the Sull and is hunted by the Standing Dead. Mace Blackhail returns home and challenges his wife Raina to the chiefship. And in a small one-bedroom cottage to the south a powerful sorcerer makes contact with the Endlords, sliding the world toward the brink of destruction.