Dillen, Koto and Tajni are free of their cruel masters and ready for their next adventure. Dillen is drawn to a respected mapmaker's appeal for an apprentice and hopes to be chosen. But many others want the job, and the test for them all is to undertake a journey to a mountain pass haunted by a fearsome creature said to be the size of a barn and able to move like a hunting snake. Dillen and his friends soon discover they have an even more perilous mission on their hands, one that could be the end for all of them...
Peter Cooper is an electronics engineer by day and a keen fantasy reader and writer by night. He has long held ambitions to be a successful published author and lives in Adelaide, Australia, with his wife Pip and their three sons.