We left off with Victor coming to Veldaren and trying to bring an end to the underworld and only succeeded in weaking it to the point of making the underworld vulnerable to takeover by the whole of the sun guild and trying to woo Alyssa so he can have access to her funds and to pay for his army. I like that fact Thren and the Watcher have time to try and get through their differences. But being as Thren is power hungry thief who wants to rule Veldaren it is no surprise that he betrays Haern and sees Luther by himself and gains the power to bring Veldaren crashing down. A point I kind of don't like is when Haern and Delysia end up arguing about what happens when ghost makes an appearance and Haern seeks vengeance for the death of his friend and mentor Senke and stops Delysia from healing him I can understand both points of view and they part ways. There is a moment with Zusa and Haern getting intimate with each other both dealing with rejection.