"From perfect cold, dark and silent, the world has flickered. Now it sputters; soon it fades. The hush of an unending winter night is the only true eternity." Infidel must journey to the frozen north to return a sacred relic to an ogre temple. She hires the Freewind, helmed by Captain Gale Romer, to make the perilous journey. But when the Freewind is attacked by fanatical cultists, Infidel finds herself caught up in a battle...