Xadikib Sythil has returned and has a whole army at his disposal. Malekith will lose friends and enemies will reconcile with him. Malek knows what has to be done. Treachery will surround him. He will have no one left to trust. Old friends will show themselves to help in the what started as a Commorite war into a galactic war. The end of the Sythil Trilogy...and the beginning?