In a world where malices, remnants of ancient magic, can erupt with life-destroying power, only soldier-sorcerer Lakewalkers have mastered the ability to kill them. But Lakewalkers keep their uncanny secrets-and themselves-from the farmers they protect. So when patroller Dag Redwing Hickory rescued plantation girl Fawn Bluefield, neither expected to fall in like, marry, and defy both their kin to get new solutions to the divide between their individuals.

As Dag’s abilities have become, thus has his concern about The Posting Blade, Vol. 4 about who-or what-he is now. By the end of an excellent river journey, he is offered an apprenticeship to a expert groundsetter inside a southern Lakewalker camp. But mainly because his understanding of his power deepens, so does his frustration using the camp’s rigid mores with respect to farmers. At last, he and Fawn decide to travel a very different road-and find that along it, their disparate but hopeful organization increases.

Fawn and Dag see that their globe is changing, and the traditional Lakewalker procedures cannot hold every malice away forever. Yet for all your customs which the couple offers challenged thus far, they will soon be faced with an emergency exceeding their most severe imaginings-one that threatens their Lakewalker and farmer fans alike. Right now the pair must response in earnest the issue they’ve grappled with given that they killed their first malice collectively: When the aged traditions fail disastrously, can their untried new ways stand against their world’s deadliest foe?