The darkening is gone from the North and the orcs of the defeated Kingdom of Many-Arrows have fled back to their caves in the Spine of the World. The dwarves of Mithral Hall and the Citadels Felbarr and Adbar bury their dead and rebuild their damaged halls. Drizzt and his companions turn their thoughts to the future - to family, to new adventures, or new domesticity. The drow of Menzoberranzan have established a new city in the deepest reaches of the rediscovered dwarven homeland of Guantlgrym - a home Bruenor Battlehammer is determined to reclaim. But before the dark elves of the uncaring Underdark can fend off an invasion of dwarves they'll have to fight off each other, and the army of demons they've chosen - against all better judgment - to summon into their own city. Gromph Baenre, the powerful drow and Archmage of Menzoberranzan, will find his very sanity put to the Spider Queen's diabolical test.