The most recent spellbinding adventure in Larry Niven’s acclaimed collaborations with Steven Barnes

Aros of Azteca and Neoloth-Pteor will be the deadliest of enemies: swordsman and sorcerer, locked in mortal fight, who have tried to kill one another more times than either can count. But when the princess Neoloth loves is definitely kidnapped, there is only one plan that provides any hope of recovery … and that requires passing from the barbarian Aros like a dropped princeling and infiltrating the deadliest cabal of necromancers the globe has ever seen. They cannot trust each other. They’ll betray or eliminate each other the first opportunity they get. But they’re all each other has.