Nightfall--gifted with a power any sorcerer would kill to possess--makes his triumphant return in this long-awaited sequel to "The Legend of Nightfall" in a spellbinding new adventure.

When Benton Collins returned from Barakhai-where magic had turned all but the royal family into inadvertent shapeshifters-he thought his adventures were at an end. But the friends he'd left behind still needed his aid, and Ben had to return to joi...

Graduate student Benton Collins tries to catch an escaped lab rat and enters the land of Barakhai, peopled with shapeshifters who transform into animals daily--whether they want to or not. When Benton is convicted of a crime and condemned to die, ...