The Sorcerer's Curse

"He was Grizhni, the King of Darkness. And in him flowed the blood of the great sorcerer Terrs Fal Grizhni, the blood of the gentle noblewoman Verran--and the blood of the inhuman Vardrul. To him fell the task of avenging the wrong done his ancestor, fulfilling the legendary curse feared by every citizen of Lanthi Ume. But from the doomed city, four sought him out. The Duke's outspoken daughter, a renegade savant, a young claimant to nobility, and his fumbling servant--all vowed to enter the lair of the dead sorcerer's part-human, part-Vardrul descendants... and meet the new King of Darkness face-to-face. Only then could they challenge... The Sorcerer's Curse."--Pg. [4] of cover.