Disowned by his family as a witch-child, the minstrel Alaric had long trod his path alone, armed with his lute, his songs, and his power to move magically from place to place. When he came upon the grandeur of Castle Royale, he had no idea that there he would find temptation, and within
Gildrum came to Castle Spinweb as a wounded knight, to be succored by the Lady Delivev, a sorcerer with control over all magic related to spinning or weaving. Then, after a brief idyll of love, he vanished, leaving behind a woman wailing for a demon lover. But neither she nor Cray, the son she
