‘I ask all of you here to join me in pledging yourself to a common cause,’ said Miphon.
Elkor Alish laughed, harshly: ‘A common cause? Between wizards and the Rovac? Forget it!’
And yet it had to be. Though Alish never accepted the alliance, his fellow warrior Morgan Hearst joined forces with Miphon and the other wizards. The only alternative was the utter destruction of their world. They faced two perils, each of which could bring about their end: the Swarms, and a power that turned living things to stone, and brought rocks to life.

‘Superior Sword and Sorcery. A stylish and horrific fantasy adventure awash with heroic derring-do and some of the most ingenious magic I’ve come across in many a moon.’
Julian May, author of The Pliocene Exile

‘a big fat novel chockablock with magic, action, and probably the single cleverest use of magical devices I’ve come across in fantasy. . . two bottles that are much, much larger inside than they are outside, and what happens when one of them gets inside the other. The handling of the permutations of this circumstance is fiendishly clever.’
Baird Searles in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine