From publisher blurb: You must be cautious when you explore the hills. Not all of them are simple hills. Some are houses of the dead, and in some houses the dead walk. —Jamys Abell, the First Knight The adventurers arrive at a low hill. An ash tree grows from its top, and a clear, cold stream passes its base. At the foot of the hill is a large stone that used to cover the mouth of a cave. Or is it a cave? The stone and the cave entrance have tool marks on them. Long ago the Esuvii laid to rest the warrior son of their chieftain in a tomb they carved from the bones of this hill. Outside, the world—and the Esuvii—moved on. The forests through which the prince had hunted were felled, the land put to the plough. During centuries of Empire, the hill transformed slowly, until it was covered with new foliage. The tomb was forgotten…until the adventurers find it.