Book III of Lives of the Mayfair Witches. The Mayfair Witches face a new threat - the Taltos, the giant race gifted with preternatural knowledge, who breed in minutes and live for centuries, the race that spawned the monster-innocent Lasher, who gave the witches their power and almost destroyed them. Unknown to the Mayfairs, another Taltos still lives: the legendary Ashler who has done and suffered much wrong over the centuries. Now a frantic chase speeds them all from the dawn of history and the Dark Ages to high-tech New York. from New Orleans to Stonehenge and the Scottish Highlands, to their ultimate fate. Cover art by Gislebertus.