As Master Darque fights to return to the land of the living, his former disciple - the deadly assassin Roku - will build an army to put him down for good. But not even the Shadow Seven - the underworld's deadliest cabal of murderers and mercenaries - will be enough to assure victory. To truly defeat an undead lord of death and resurrection, she'll need the complete and unquestioning allegiance of Ninjak...who isn't interested. But when Darque's long-missing sister Sandria returns with a gambit that could reveal his greatest weakness, an unholy alliance of light and darkness will be forged that could upset the balance of good and evil once and for all time...