Zhe and the Bone Mages have brought the war home to T'iru Midiri.

Now that he is a Threefold Mage, Zhe's power is growing every day, and their struggle for freedom is advancing through the countryside.

But Queen Diarmuid and the Dragon Riders haven't been staying still. She has combined her own dragon magic with the powers of metallurgy of her allies, the Iron Boatmen of Mun. She now has a secret weapon that can stop Zhe's magic.

In this epic final chapter of the Lost Mages trilogy, Zhe travels from one end of T'iru Midiri to the other; from the underwater kingdom of the North Sea God, to the pirates of Mangrove city. He will even battle his own patron demon, A'tiniti, in the underworld in order to save his people.

And, when the final confrontation comes the stakes couldn't be higher: freedom or death.