At the very end of the King's Road was Alica, a frozen, forgotten little village. Maelstrom Cross used to be the only watchman it needed. But Alica isn't a village any more, and Cross has become more than any simple watchman. A river of gold mined from the mountains transformed a village into a city, and ancient evils discovered underground turned a watchman into something more . . .No one knows how old the system of sewers and strange tunnels beneath...