<p>Undergraduate Sam Wood finds his dream life in Oxford interrupted when he encounters a menacing Shadow.Soon he is on the run pursued by unknown forces and searching for answers.</p><p>He escapes to the borderlands of Northumberland where beings from other worlds are creeping into this one and learns he is embroiled in a quest to prevent the murder of the last Druid heir of a mysterious order which has protected this world and others for millennia.</p><p>Along the way the boundaries between good and evil light and dark and even the loyalties of those sent to protect him are called into question.</p><p>What awaits him at the Dead Water only he can face. A place where the Druids laid down their lives to protect the darkest of all their secrets.</p>