After a twenty-year wait, the legendary Halfblood Chronicles reaches its finale in Book Four - written by Mercedes Lackey and Ben Ohlander, in memory of Andre Norton. The elves did not conquer because they were strong. They fled because something stronger was hunting them. On the elves' original homeworld, the last great cities stand behind failing shields while monstrous Predators batter at the walls. Lord Haldeen Gatekeeper knows the truth his rulers refuse to face: the creatures are not mindless beasts. They are learning, adapting, and closing in. Desperate to save his city and the rank he has clawed up from nothing, Haldeen reopens the forbidden World Gate that once carried the elven exiles to a new world. His secret experiment sends a living probe through the ancient portal - and drags back something he cannot begin to understand: Lady Triana, not long ago one of the most dangerous players in the courts of the world her people once conquered. Triana has survived intrigue, rivalry, and every poisonous ...
