<p>It's a cruel and unforgiving world. Warlords rule, selfishness reigns, and dark things whisper in the secret places. Into this world steps an abandoned girl.</p><p><br></p><p>Defiant before fate, she crawls into the shadow. There she finds the impossible...a friend. Yet evil things stalk her and caring is a weakness she can ill afford.</p><p><br></p><p>Can her soul endure their twisted machinations? Or will darkness claim yet another innocent?</p>