Swordsman of Lost Terra

Five years after the clans of Killorn left their purple hills, Red Bram's band marches into war-torn Ryvan and straight into an army out of the Dark Lands. The invaders are gaunt, silent, golden-eyed men from the country of endless night.

Kery son of Rhiach charges into the battle on an armored war-bull. When it is over, his father the warlock is dead, and Kery is left holding the pipe of the gods, a battered set of bagpipes whose music can kill, without knowing how to play it. Bram's warriors are caught between proud Queen Sathi of Ryvan and Mongku, the soft-spoken heir of Ganasth, and Kery must find the pipe's secret before his people die far from the lake where it is forever sunset.