Paul S. Kemp is best known as the author of several Forgotten Realms novels, including The Twilight War Trilogy, Resurrection, and The Godborn. While his mind is often in the Forgotten Realms world, his body lives in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, with his wife Jennifer, his dog Penelope, and four cats: Newt, Libby, Emmitt, and Homer (after the poet, not the Simpson). He is a graduate of the University of Michigan-Dearborn and the University of Michigan law school. When he's not writing tales for Ed Greenwood's magnificent brainchild, he practices corporate law in Detroit. Visit him online at paulskemp.com.

Tensions escalate between Erevis Cale and his rival-slash-accomplice, Drasek Riven, in a fierce battle of wills

Lost on the mysterious Plane of Shadow, with no way home in sight, Erevis Cale and his band of comrades recover from their recent battle with the fearsome Slaadi-a species of monstrous and frog-like creatures.

Meanwhile, Drasek Riven grows more calculating as Cale's powers increase, and the rivals are locked together in a complicated power struggle-sometimes as enemies and sometimes as accomplices. As the duo makes their way to the infamous city of Skull Port and to the chaotic Skulls, a band of wizards tasked with patrolling the city, they will push their fraugt alliance to its furthest limits.