The companions' journey takes them across a vast, dangerous ocean and their relationships, tenuous at best, become even more strained. "Freya has a wonderful grasp on storytelling and the written word. She has the one thing that is hardest to find in a writer and that's a smooth dance of words. All of the beats are just right whether it's a sentence or a paragraph." Chris S As the King's Assassin, Ashlar Slate, continues to pursue the four companions, threats also assail them from elsewhere; pirates and a deadly poison. This is the fourth book in The Kaerling boxset series. Join the journey before it ends! If you enjoy tales by Robert Holdstock, Tara Saunders and a Frank Herbert, you'll love The Kaerling series! Warning: contains scenes of a sexual nature, violence and slavery, which some readers may find upsetting.