Presents three novels in which King Lief, Barda, and Jasmine search for the three parts of the Pirran Pipe, a weapon powerful enough to combat the Shadow Lord's magic that is keeping thousands of their fellow Deltorans prisoner in the kingdom of Shadowlands.

Rye has defeated the sorcerer Olt, freed the island of Dorne, and rescued one of his brothers, but when he returns to the city of Weld with his three companions, he finds that very little has changed--the skimmer monsters still attack at night and the Warden is behaving very strangely.