The most powerful sorcerer in the world sought his death, and failed.He fell into darkness and seeming death in battle, yet he lives.Now he wants answers, and much more.Talaos's gifts of power grow and gather, brooding as the storm that now gathers on the eastern sea. He has no one to guide him and plenty of enemies. Amid siege, battle, conquest and deadly struggles for power, answers wait to be found. But that does not mean they will be willingly given.The second book of Storm and Fire continues the wild, brutal tale of the Storm's Own Son.