Secrets lie across the seas.<br /><br />Heir Ruarnon seeks allies to free their parents from unpredictable sorcerer-king Nartzeer. The reclusive Urai are not who they had in mind but can offer far more than Ruarnon anticipates. However, negotiations are interrupted when Nartzeer&#39;s murderous grey-hided damars are sighted sailing towards Tarlah.<br /><br />The damars&#39; human handlers are lost Vietnamese-Aussie Linh&#39;s chance to confirm that her gateway home &mdash;and sorcerers able (and hopefully willing) to operate it&mdash; lie in the dangerous West.<br /><br />When Linh sets sail to confront the handlers, she learns that magic is very much still wielded on Umarinaris. That some of the Sorcery War&#39;s deadliest weapons survived. And that Nartzeer somehow knows all of this and has his own plans for those weapons.