Lakewalker Barr Foxbrush profits from 2 yrs of patrolling the bitter wilds of Luthlia against the enigmatic, destructive entities called malices, and then find that the secret daughter he’d left behind in the hinterland of Oleana has disappeared from her home after an awful accusation. The seek out her will ask even more of Barr’s mind and heart than simply his mage powers, as he tries to stability his errors of the past and his most personal responsibilities to the near future. A stand-alone tale set in the world of the Writing Knife.