Aidan Errolson is now living in the court of King Darrow, but the king is spiraling into suspicion and paranoia. His insecurity causes him to hate the young man who once saved his kingdom. When the king sends Aidan on an impossible adventure into the recesses of Feechiefen...
Aidan falls out of favor with King Darrow and is sent to the recesses of Feechiefen Swamp, where no Corenwalder has ever survived. But Aidan's fate is not sealed yet for he has allies among the feechiefolk who know him as the hero Pantherbane.