The book was hidden well.<br><br>It's pages promised the power of the Witch-King himself.<br><br>And now that it's been found, even the fact that it kills anyone foolish enough to crack its cover won't stop people from fighting over it.<br><br>Welcome to the Bloodstone Lands!<br><br>Human assassin Artemis Entreri and his dark elf companion Jarlaxle have come to the demon-haunted wastelands of the frozen north at the request of their dragon patron. It doesn't take long for them to find themselves caught in the middle of a struggle between powerful forces that would like nothing more than to see them both dead . . . or worse.<br><br>But Entreri and Jarlaxle aren't just any wandering sellswords, and the ancient evils and bitter blood-feuds of the wild Bloodstone Lands may have finally met their match.