Three years after her fateful journeys through the forbidding mountains of Vystrana in which she lost her husband, Lady Isabella Trent defies family and convention to embark on an expedition to the savage, war-torn continent of Eriga, home of such exotic draconian species as the grass-dwelling snakes of the savannah, arboreal tree snakes and, most elusive of all, the legendary swamp-wyrms of the tropics. The expedition is not an easy one. Accompanied...