A novelette of 10,000 words. When the lovely Mira visits the hermitage of the local wizard, the former barbarian mercenary Sun Wolf, to beg his help in rescuing her sweetheart from a traveling mage, Sun Wolf suspects that this is a trap set for him. The challenge is to rescue the young lovers from death and peril without using magic, by which his own soul might be trapped.
This book is part of the Sun Wolf and Starhawk Books series and is book #7 in the series.