“The guards are mad; they want to keep me as a caged parakeet.” Becoming the Elf King has some drawbacks that Lord Spaulding never realized before. Spaulding awakens in National Palace several months ago with an abdominal wound, and part of his memory is erased. Worse, his former arch-nemesis, Lord Froylan, is now his servant. After surviving a foiled assassination attempt by a rogue Äimite guard named Lord Tamerlan, Spaulding suspects his disconcerting ally Lord Froylan has an ulterior agenda. Memories of a dangerous magical artifact resurface. Spaulding must embrace the haunting memories that forced him to bond to his Ominous Book before he destroys the Elf Kingdom.