It carries on the tale of Princess Moriana's quest to battle the evil that has claimed her city, and in carrying on a difficult plot (which could so easily have been written badly) Vardeman and Milan have successfully wrapped up the adventures of Moriana and Fost along with the style and flair of the first book. The characterisations are excellently done, even down to the annoyingly unearthly Erimenes ( who else could write a book about a man in a jug! )

Fost Longstrider's mission seemed ordinary. He'd been hired to deliver a jug to a wizard on the far side of the forest. Unfortunately the jug contained a sex-starved genie, the wizard was dead by foul means, and Fost was probably the next to die. Then the genie was stolen and spirited away to the City in the Sky. It was up to Fost to steal it back from two beautiful sisters. They were fighting to become queen and, using dark powers, one had called forth a demon. Now Fost's foray was suddenly a terrible war