With each kill, I grow wiser, and with added wisdom, I grow stronger.

Powerful assassin Artemis Entreri tightens his grip on the streets of Calimport, driven by the power of his hidden drow supporters. But his sponsor Jarlaxle grows ever more ambitious, and Entreri struggles to remain cautious and in control. Soon, the power of the malevolent Crystal Shard grows greater than them both, threatening to draw them into a vast web of treachery from which there will be no escape.

I grant you your soul, but not your life. Be happy that I have found a measure of mercy.

The Witch-King

A lich of unspeakable power that people say has been destroyed, but whose hand still somehow holds the realm in its grip.

The Knight

A champion of good with secrets as dark as any assassin's, she is the unlikeliest ally a dark elf has ever had.

Entreri and Jarlaxle might be strangers in the rugged, unforgiving mountains of the Bloodstone Lands, but they've been in difficult places before. Caught between the ghost of a power-mad lich, and the righteous fury of an oath-bound knight, they've never felt more at home.

To her, to her dying breath, you were the untouchable one, the one whose flesh her dagger could not penetrate.

The Assassin

A cold and emotionless killer for whom every soul has a price, even his own, embarks on a path to find out just how high that price can be.

The Mercenary

A dark elf of limitless guile dares to challenge a king, and carve for himself a place in the inhospitable World Above.

Ilnezhara and Tazmikella are ancient dragons of great power, accustomed to easily manipulating the humans around them. But not all humans are so easily led. When they pushed Entreri and Jarlaxle into the heart of the Bloodstone Lands, not even they could have imagined the strength of the human assassin's resolve, or the limitless expanse of the drow mercenary's ambition.

Entreri and Jarlaxle aren't done with the Bloodstone Lands yet, and that monster-infested wasteland has a few surprises left for them, too. When Jarlaxle's limitless ambition once again endangers them both, Entreri will have to choose between the only friend he's ever had, and any chance he might have of survival in the face of an angry paladin king and the ghosts of his own past.