This book follows the plotting of Cyric who along with Midnight/Mystra was elevated to God hood at the end of the Avatar trilogy, (Shadowdale, Tantras and Waterdeep - by Richard Awlinson). This book is best off thought of as a pre cursor to the final book to the unofficial quintet of books, Crucible: the trial of Cyric the mad. This book explains the story of where Kelemvor, Midnights lover killed by Cyric in Waterdeep, is being hidden. Now that Cyric is god of the dead, lies, decay etc.., he should be able to locate the soul of Kelemvor, but someone or something is hiding him. Whilst he schemes to take revenge for this act upon the rest of the 'council' of gods in the pantheon, you see the reactions and counter plots of the other 'goodly' gods when it suits them. The finally of this story comes with a suprising twist, although the twist fizzles out in the predictable last couple of pages. If you liked the Avatar trilogy, read this along with Crucible. A great set of books. NB: The Avatar trilogy was written under the psudonym Richard Awlinson, Prince of Lies was written by James Lowder. This was loved by the original author and prompted him to write Crucible as himself, Troy Denning. Happy reading.