Poisoned Memories — Christopher Kubasik

DEATH'S SEA

was the last place on J'role's mind when he risked his life in a desperate attempt to save a child pursued by Horrors. Yet for all his thief's magic, for all his experience with the Horrors--who could steal both mind and soul J'role could offer only temporary safety to the dwarf boy Neden, son and heir to King Varulus. For Nedcn's true enemy was not some nameless Horror, but Mordom, whom J'role had slain long years before. To Mordom, capturing J'role was an unexpected bonus--an old enemy to be tortured for amusement and whatever knowledge he might possess. But J'role's need to escape was greater than the bonds that held him, driving him to choose certain destruction in Death's Sea to imprisonment on Mordom's airship. Yet J'role was about to discover that Death's realm held many surprises. And that sometimes, if a mortal was desperate enough and his cause important enough, even Death might give him a second chance....