From the back cover: The dark elf vampire who rules Castle Mistmore is searching for a small red harp. Chanzoon Nexus, necromancer, wants to know why. Chanzoon has the harp. The problem is finding a bard who can play it well enough to uncover its secrets. Faydwer’s bards consider harps to be quaint folk instruments, unworthy of their attention. The exception is Elizerain, a wood elf who grew up with a harp in her hands. She collects ballads like other adventurers collect treasure, and if these story-songs are entertaining, she doesn’t care if they’re accurate. That was before a necromancer’s curse gave her a choice: learn the true story behind the ballad of the blood red harp, or die screaming. Intent on her search, surrounded by deadly enemies and treacherous alliances, Elizerain doesn’t realize that the real danger may be the harp itself.