One girl and three boys born on the fateful Darknight are the recipients of a prophesy of future glory chanted in a trance by Helgya, the seeress of the Fjorlander clan. Rulla, Dealer of Fates, has bestowed her blessing, but she is hard and stains each rune of glory she hands out in blood.

 At sixteen they pass into the Sea Wolves, the clan that raids foreign shores and brings back plunder. The four must brave the Demon’s Teeth and strange, hostile lands. But the plunder they seek carry a cost they could never have imagined… or feared.