A Wastrel's Tale

"The Order stands between the Strone Arts and extinction of Mankind." It has been a century since the necromantic Stone Arts have surfaced, and service in the Exalted Order of Light and Life is spent preparing for a war that no one believes is coming, least of all Warden Lucas Butron. Lucas' enjoyment of the lazy days of peace are threatened when the greatest Stonemancer of their age escapes and the specter of Undead armies marching rises from the pages of history. Despite being a man committed to the simple camaraderie of his Order and the pursuit of his own happiness, Lucas finds himself thrown into a maelstrom of war and intrigue for which he is ill-prepared. Wanting nothing so much as a chance to return to idle days and carefree nights of peacetime, Lucas struggles to cope with the madness that has engulfed his world, and the ever-increasing burden of what he had seen and done in the hope of victory. From the author of the Dream trilogy (and thirteen other books) comes a novel of war, necromancy, and the simple dreams of a man who struggles to find his place in a sea of uncertainty.