From the introduction: The cause is all but lost. The demons have won. The Light dies. ...Or so they would have you believe. Across the last human kingdom, glittering Lunedd, shadows creep in search of the smallest foothold, the tiniest doubt or fear, to encourage greed and lies and deceit. And in the crystal city of Never, the heart of Lunedd, the twilight lasts a little longer each dusk, and rumors whisper of dark pacts and darker deeds, done for the pettiest of reasons and the basest of coins. ...But all is not lost.