As the terrifying Beloved spread throughout Ansalon, Rhys Mason and Nightshade join forces with a powerful wizardress and paladin of Kiri-Jolith in a desperate battle to destroy the invading vampiric creatures. Mina manages to escape her prison in the Blood Sea Tower to go on a search for the fabled Hall of Sacrilege. Her search leads her to an encounter with the dead guardian of the Hall, an ancient evil sea dragon, and an unexpected, baffling discovery.