<b>In the second instalment of the Rotstorm series, heroine Flor¿ust continue to fight back against the encroaching children of the storm ¿ but now her daughter Marta is dying, too. Can Flor¿ave her daughter, and her people, from threats familiar and new?</b>Once a warrior of the Stormguard Commandos, Flor¿rought horrors in the rotstorm to protect her people. She did her duty and swore to leave the bloodshed behind. But when her daughter, Marta, was kidnapped, Flor¿as forced to once again raise her gauntlet against the devils of Ferron to bring her home.Now Marta is dying from the skein-magic she inherited from her father, and the Protectorate is weakened by the absence of the whitestaffs. The mystical order of healers and sages fled to their island citadel when strange orbs cut through the night.Flor¿nd her comrades must race to find a cure for Marta, to find the truth of the whitestaffs'' betrayal, and to fight back against the encroaching children of the storm. Flor¿as taken up her