<p><strong>The Very Soul of the War Is at Stake.</strong></p><p>Amid an ever-escalating war a wedge has been driven between Tag and Randall. These one-time friends find themselves in a hostile status verging on becoming enemies.<br><br>All but giving up on his friend Tag takes a young war orphan under his wing. The tender and broken boy struggles to adapt to life in the war... and becomes a further stone in the wall between Tag and his former friend.<br><br>Unknown to them all a dark and deadly magical creature called a Black Whisper has been sent to hunt Tag and bring him to Uval and Kuran.<br><br>Humiliated Uval thirsts for vengeance against Tag and may soon have the boy in his grasp thanks to the soul-stealing monster. He schemes tortures untold for the boy soldier who has come to be renowned as 'The Scythe.'<br><br>Will Tag escape the clutches of his obsessive enemy? Can he and Randall set aside their differences and unite against a common foe? Or will they all be consumed by the dark maelstrom swirling around them?</p>