Cu Chulainn was only a teenaged boy when he defeated the combined armies of Queen Maeve. Now, with nothing to fight, Ulster's warrior seems cursed—by a child he never knew he had; by the Sidhe sorceress Fand; by the goddess queen of Connacht herself, who has never forgiven him for his triumph; and by the three dark and evil sisters called The Morrigu. Long ago, the Druid Cathbad once gave him the choice of reknown for his great deeds or a long life. Cu Chulainn chose the former, and now it seems that the consequences of that choice have come due.