Braldt Lioncastle returns to Purgatory bearing devastating news: King Arthur, their leader and friend, is dead. But grief is the least of their problems. A member of the Company of Light-and Braldt himself-now stand on the brink of the True Death, a fate beyond even the afterlife.
Their only hope lies in mastering an ancient and unforgiving blade and reuniting allies long scattered and wary of war. To save their souls, Braldt must convince the Company to return to the one place they swore never to enter again-the Temple of Time.
Beyond its gates lies a shattered Earth, where magic's return has twisted the world into a post-apocalyptic nightmare. Humanity and nature teeter on extinction, and something far worse is rising in the ruins.
To save two souls, they must save a world.
And time is running out.