From international bestseller Glen Cook comes the eleventh book in the chronicles of the Black Company — the series that forever changed the face of fantasy. The Black Company has been paid to keep the peace in the backwater city of Aloe — but peace has never been good for business. Ordered to crush a rising rebellion, the Company must rely on their newest ally: the enigmatic Mischievous Rain, the newest member of the Taken that looks eerily like the Lady, and who Croaker knows better than to trust. With a target on his back and strange happenings plaguing the city, Croaker begins to suspect that something might be tampering with their minds and maybe even history itself...