Down Among the Dead Men
10 YEARS AFTER THE DEMON WAR
There is a part of the Forest where it is always night, where the tall trees bow together to shut out the light. Men call it the Darkwood and in living memory its denizens have threatened the Forest Land. Now the scars are slowly healing – until, in a clearing near the Darkwood's boundary, something buried deep beneath the earth begins to wake from its foul dreams.
The border fort on the edge of the Darkwood had been built to keep the peace. So far it had, but after delivery of a large consigment of gold it falls silent, answering neither natural nor supernatural communication. When the Forest King sends a small force, combining sorcerous and military skills, they find a deserted fortress soaked in blood. Magic reveals only something malevolent and unreachable somewhere in the fort. But Duncan MacNeil and his company have human foes, greedy for gold, to deal with before they can take on the inhuman...
