Book Three in the Mages of Martir series A month after the events of "The Mage's Limits," Darek Takren receives an urgent notice from the Undersea Institute, the second most prestigious magical school in the world, asking him to come help protect the school from a mysterious new threat. Thinking he is strong enough to handle it, Darek travels to the school to aid his friends there. Yet he soon finds himself hundreds of miles beneath the ocean's surface, separated from the gods, facing a darkness no mage has ever fought before, while Uron's servants operate in the background to free their master from his prison. Worse yet, at the end of his quest beneath the sea lies a terrible fate for Darek ... a fate he cannot avoid.