Synopsis: Into the arms of death... With her world in the grip of the Fetch - a force of evil with the ability to destroy her civilization - the Healer Serroi and hr companions-in-arms forge deeper into the lands controlled by this mysterious and terrifying foe. They harbor a desperate hope of finding some key to its destruction, or at the very least, of deflecting the attention of the Fetch from their allies, thus buying them time to marshal an attack. But even as Serroi makes her way into the innermost Stronghold of her enemy, the very magics which protect her prove her undoing. Her presence there revealed to the Fetch, she is taken captive. Caught in the grip of a being who can alter the very laws of life and death, can Serroi seize the power needed to overcome her adversary and heal her stricken world? (from the back cover of the DAW Books first edition)