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If your friend is possessed and tries his best to kill you, is he still your friend? Oh come on. Really?Fenwick interrupted Caz's peaceful existence with another assignment from the king. After a difficult mid-winter journey, they find things are far worse than reported. A mage of the Dark Arts has appeared. The two return to the city and obtain assistance from Lucy and the queen.When Caz returns to the Eastern March, the time of the annual incursion of the horse nomads is near. Caz rides east to find a suitable place for an ambush. Caz and his forces, aided by the crown prince and some of the king's personal troops, spring the trap perfectly.Caz learns that the leader of one of the kingdom's most powerful criminal organizations has kidnapped his father. The law and the crown are unwilling or unable to help. Caz and Fenwick deduce that the kidnapping is only meant to draw the two of them into a trap.What sort of courage does it require to walk into a known trap, without knowing what the threat is that's waiting?

It's never too late to ring in the bells of war is it?The threat of war in the east is eliminated after a successful, but costly embassy across inhospitable terrain. But just as Casimir FitzDuncan begins to contemplate a less martial existence, Fenwick intrudes, with an urgent assignment from the king.There are rumors that Aquileia's ages-old enemy, the Rhetian Empire, is beating the drums of war. To find out, the two must venture deep into hostile territory, with no hope of support. Days into this quest - they are captured and detained.Now the time is ticking down and escape is the only option if they hope to provide the warning that the rumors are true--the enemy is advancing upon them-all the while knowing that success will throw them both into the maw of a violent clash, the likes of which have not been seen for over a hundred years.Peril seems to wait for them in every shadow.Will they reach Aquileia in time to warn the king? Will Aquileia withstand the snapping blood-stained jaws of war?