From the author of The Longsword Chronicles, The Shi'ell, and The Six Concentrics, comes the third book in the series A Newland Tale...

Carrick Ranuldson is a Vigil in the unique west lobe town of Southempton. It's a town endowed with a special Royal Charter, and it's also a town afflicted by a strange and creeping lassitude known as 'the lazy-ague'. a baffling ailment seemingly without cause or cure.

But more than this, Carrick knows there's something far more disturbing going on beneath the town's indolent facade. It's his duty to investigate, but little does he know what lurks in the darkness and lies in wait at the end of his enquiries... and once his boots are on the path, there's no going back for Carrick.