With more than just his ego bruised, Taum wants nothing more than to put everything that happened in the marshes behind him. But what his friends are walking into is worse than what they just left, and he's the only one who knows it... While the others calculate the risks of their inevitable return to Sunne's territory, Taum dreads his return to the forest of his home for a different reason. His heart still aches for everything he left there, and he never told his friends he didn't leave Woodell willingly. The forest is dangerous now. Deadly. To all who enter. Even more so to him. But Taum doesn't have time to dwell, because between Sunne's forces and the Forest of Ghosts, it's going to be hard enough just to survive the night. is the third book in and continues the epic quest begun in .