"In this third novel of musket and magic in the Iron Elves saga, Major Konowa Swift Dragon's ultimate journey in fraught with escalating danger. A vast, black forest finds a new source of dark power, spawning creatures even more monstrous than the blood trees from which they evolve, the maniacally unstable former emissary of the Shadow Monarch hungers for revenge, and Visyna Tekoy, whom Konowa counts among those he loved and lost, fights for her life against the very elves Konowa is so desperate to find."