Across two worlds Lyleth, a druid advisor to her murdered king, calls his soul back from the land of the dead to reclaim his throne. Hugh Cavendish is torn from his life as a high school English teacher and pitched back into the turmoil of his previous life as Nechtan, king of the Five Quarters. If he and Lyleth fail to regain his throne and prevent civil war, the ice-born reaver known as the Bear waits to snatch up the scraps of his...