The darklings come at night carrying their plague of shadows to the nine worlds. They corrupt all they touch and there's no cure except burning in the sacred fires. And Abagail Bauer has been infected with their baneful magic. Finally rescued by the harbingers of light from the legion of darklings, Abagail thinks danger is behind her...she's wrong. As tensions mount between Abagail and her friend, Rorick, a darkness is building in the harbinger settlement of Haven. Darkness that could spell the end for the last bastion of good in the realms: a secret army of darklings determined to destroy the nine worlds.The last battle of gods and man is coming.