Maelstrom is a half-demon prince pining for a place in history. (Honestly, he\'s just bored and searching for a way to pass the time.) Twigs is the young, prophesized Hero of Virtue fated to face him-or so we\'ve been told... But Maelstrom\'s mother, regent to the throne and a powerful necromancer, is determined to keep an iron grip on her domain. Bemoaning his lost destiny, Maelstrom teams up with the Hero to stop his mother and forge a new destiny for himself. What Twigs doesn\'t know is that Maelstrom has a cunning plan to build his own epic legend and double-cross Twigs at the perfect moment... (W/A) Lorian Merriman