Falca Breks, a rapparee from Draica, left much in the northern wilderness of the Rough Bounds-the riches and renown that could have been his had he stayed at the lake-isle fortress of Scaldasaig he captured, against all odds, from traitorous Wardens of Lucidor. He also left something else that no measure of fortune or fame could have replaced. By choice or not, he'd lost everything. So when Falca decided to head farther south, he cautioned himself...