On the run from his former associates, ex-assassin Vlad Taltos is tracked down in his jungle hideout by Lady Teldra, the charming chatelaine of Castle Black, who hopes to enlist is help to find
his missing friends, Morrolan e'Drien and Aliera e'Kieron, who may have fallen into the clutches of the Jenoine, powerful beings who had long ago created Dragaera. Reprint.