Bewitched and Betrayed

Name: Raine Benares Race: Elf Job: Saghred bond servant and ghost hunter—in other words, seeker for the dead. Problem: Still saddled with the Saghred and now the dead are hunting me. Until last week, I was an average sorceress. Now I’m bonded to the Saghred, a soul-devouring stone of immeasurable power, which has earned me a new job title—ghost hunter. The Isle of Mid is haunted. Not by the chain-rattling, cold spot, moaning sort of specters. Six evil sorcerers have escaped from the Saghred. They aren’t dead, but they aren’t exactly alive, either. My link to the Saghred makes me the Conclave Guardians’ specter-hunting bloodhound. Not only can I sense the specters; I can see them. Lucky me. Made all the more fun that while I hunt them, they are hunting me. The dominant specter is using murder to regenerate himself by absorbing the life forces of carefully chosen victims, enriching himself with their knowledge, memories, and magic. His ultimate goal is control of the Saghred, and if he gets it, he’ll be unstoppable. And he only needs to do one more thing—kill me.