In the conclusion of the Glittering Stone cycle within the Black Company series, the members of the Black Company are faced with a number of old enemies--including Narayan Singh and his adopted daughter, Shadowcatcher, Longshadow, and Howler--while a an evil spirit, a forvalaka, attacks them at a shadowgate, igniting a chain of repercussions leading to the brink of apocalypse. Reprint.