Phil Hastings was a lucky man—he had money, a growing reputation as a screenwriter, a happy, loving family with three kids, and he’d just moved into the house of his dreams in rural of magic—and about to be altered irrevocably by a magic more real than any he dared imagine.

For with the Magic came the Bad Thing, and the Faerie, and then the Fool . . . and the resurrection of a primordial war with a forgotten People—a war that not only the Hastings but the whole human race could lose.

Raymond E. Feist is the internationally bestselling author or co-author of more than thirty novels, including Magician, Silverthorn, A Darkness at Sethanon, and Faerie Tale, as well as short stories in bestselling anthologies, including Legends and Legends II, edited by Robert Silverberg. Feist is a graduate of the University of California, San Diego, and still lives in San Diego. He is also executive producer for a scheduled TV series based on his Riftwar Cycle. He is an ardent fan of several sports teams around the world, including the Wolverhampton Wanderers, the St. George Illawara Dragons, the Los Angeles Rams and Lakers, and the San Diego Padres. His other interests include really good whisky, ridiculous numbers of great films, all varieties of music, yelling at politicians on TV, and the company of very smart people.