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Krek, the giant talking spider, on the run from his cannibalistic mate...

Inyx, the slender dark-haired beauty, master of warfare...

These are the allies of Dar-el Lan-Martek. They have banded with Lan against Claybore, the nefarious, fleshless wizard who searches for his dismembered body and his lost powers - and who has once again slipped through the portals to the Cenotaph Road. Lan and his allies have only one means to stop Claybore: They must follow their enemy to an unknown world, a planet of warring empires and vast realms of magic, a planet where even with Lan's growing command of the intricacies of sorcery, The Cenotaph Road could be a dead end...