About the book: 1998 / When the incredible happens, when a powerful spell raises an ancient prophet from the grave, when the lord of the forces of Darkness acquires a new weapon, the power of which no people can resist , nor fighting dragons, when the Rose Empire is doomed to fall under the onslaught of Darkness - in such times, despair and resignation are meaningless. The only hope for the world is a preemptive strike, which must be delivered to the center of Evil before this Evil becomes omnipotent... The magical arms race takes a new turn in Christopher Rowley's fourth novel about the dragoner Relkin and his battle dragon.