Conan of Cimmeria has lived more than most men - first as a thief, then a pirate, now a wanderer - though he has yet to see thirty winters. Having endured the extreme passions and fathomless loss of his pirate queen Bêlit, Conan continued roving the land under the infamous alias Amra the Lion. Coming to the southern Black Kingdoms, the Cimmerian lent his steel-set strength in a tribal war and earned the loyalty of the Bamula tribe. Now, after rescuing Livia, a princess of Ophir, from certain death in a Vale of Lost Women, Conan and his Bamulas ride northward to return Livia to her people. But here, on the border between Kush and Stygia, the Cimmerian and his allies may soon find that no good deed goes unpunished...
