A black sun arrives to threaten Pyrite as Wist and Aviti land in the northern continent, still pursuing Tilden.

Separated when they land, Aviti is enslaved by the relentless Intoli that have come from the frozen wastes of Prasad to wage war on the native Giants. Meanwhile, Wist’s need for revenge threatens his sanity and the lives his comrades.

In the second volume in David Gilchrist’s The Redemption of Wist series, Wist and Aviti are trapped on opposing sides of a war. They must find their own paths to freedom, or allow Pyrite to fall under the influence of the black sun and Tilden’s Allies, the deathless Waren