The tinker with his wagon full of goods is always welcome, especially for the Village at the Edge of the Valley. He sets about winning the hearts and minds of almost everyone with his generosity and the music he plays around his fire at night. However, there is someone who knows he is not what he appears to be, Once their children are home again, the villagers are eager to put the nightmare behind them and enjoy life. Although he longs for his former life, the memories of Mara calling up Ceobhran haunt Conor. The cave pulls him with a force he cannot fight, and he willingly walks into a danger he does not understand. In Book Two of The Books of Words Trilogy, KE Meuir writes a classic tale that will carry the reader across a landscape of darkness and evil. Her characters find strengths and gifts they never imagined, and they must pull on all of them in a desperate struggle to save themselves and the people they love.