About the book: year / Dark magic opened the gates to the Forbidden and locked in it Grianna Ohmsford, the rightful High Druid from Shannara. Saving Grianna will be just the beginning of an effort to return the Four Lands to some semblance of peace. Only her young nephew Penderryn hopes to return her to power. But to break the Prohibition and return Grianna to the natural world, Pen must find the legendary Tanequil. . . And the talisman that he alone can provide. This means traveling to Incrim - a scary area thickly shadowed and haunted by harrowing legends. And there Pen will make a deal more terrible than he could have imagined..