"This is an adventure tale, straight up and well told, that feels as often like a fun Saturday night of D&D as it does like a novel." ~D.J. Butler, author of the Rock Band Fights Evil and City of the Saints series"A fast paced and emotionally immersive tale of courage and survival, expertly interwoven with inspiring threads of love and heroic sacrifice." ~Jason King, author of Valcoria and Lure of FoolsElwood has no memory of who he is or where he came from. All he knows is that he was a soldier wounded while fighting against the monstrous Hyzoi; a race of armored mermen with razor sharp teeth and claws. Nursed back to health and taken in by Macey and Bowen-the kindly older couple who find him nearly dead on the banks of a frozen river-Elwood quickly becomes part of their family. Macey even lines Elwood up with her younger sister, and the prospect of a peaceful agrarian life helps him to begin to move on.But all that changes when Elwood spots a horde of Hyzoi advancing on his new home. Now he is forced to use his military training and intrinsic leadership skills to prepare the people of Winigh to desperately defend against an innumerable foe.