Ten years after the Long Night, Arden Wrynn Ashveil is expected to become the perfect paladin. Daughter of the man who saved Aetherra, heir to the Order of the First Light, she has spent her entire life obeying. Until the mindless Hollow begin moving like an army. Until a shadow creature with black ...

"Mama, what if the wind doesn't rustle the leaves? What if it howls like wolves through the branches instead?" "Those kinds of winds, my love, are called Shadow Men. Those are the bad guys." "Why are they bad? Did they take daddy away?" She frowned, pausing her work of un...