The war rages on. Cadderly, scholar-priest of the Edificant Library, leads the combined forces of Caradoon and Shilmista forest against Castle Trinity, stronghold of his enemy Aballister. But another mission calls him on a journey leading into the past. A past he would just as soon forget. In this fourth book of "The Cleric Quintet", Cadderly leads the combined forces of Caradoon and Shilmista Forest against the Castle Trinity, stronghold of his enemy Alabaster. But another, smaller mission calls him on a journey into the past--a past he'd just as soon forget.