Returning from the dead isn't easy. Especially when you discover someone else is using your name. Reappearing from the Burning Rift, Vencent Cristoff assumes his beloved city, Trista, is just like he left it. But what he finds instead is a city on the brink of civil war, a con man on his throne, and a new Shadow covering the land. Darkness has come again to Trista in the form of an ancient evil known only as Xano-Lith. But Ven won't...