The Callindra Chronicles is a book series that follows the adventures of the swashbuckling, magic slinging impetuous young woman Callindra Sol'Estin as she attempts to make her mark upon the world. In this book, Callindra and her brothers in arms find themselves in a nightmare world where monsters summoned from the Abyss are slaughtering living things and reanimating them to cause more chaos and death. A young Dwarf named Durrak is driven from his city he attempts to rebuild his life, putting events in motion that will change the world.