Our hero, Will, is on his first assignment as a fully trained Ranger. It's been several years since his last adventure, and he's developed something of a reputation, even if he isn't quite aware of it. The territory he's assigned to has had it good for a while, it's safe and sleepy and supposedly far away from the reach of enemies.
Or so Will thinks. He does well in his first crisis, and he's settling in, when he's uprooted and sent far north on a secret assignment. A castle on the border of Scotti territory is on unsteady ground, the people in the surrounding villages afraid, everyone jumping at shadows, with its lord ill and at death's door, and rumors of an ancient sorcerer who has returned to exact his revenge on the ruling family.
Nothing is as it seems, in this assignment -- starting with Will, who must travel in disguise, as a musician. He must carry out his assignment of determining what is really going on, without some of his familiar weapons, without the mystique of the Rangers as a weapon and tool, and possibly all alone. When one thing after another goes wrong, what can he do to not just find the truth, but survive?
This one leaves us hanging, waiting to find out how Will will succeed in Book 6, The Siege of Macindaw.
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