The second of The Adventures of Larson and Garrett. Seven years after the defeat of the reaper in Flotsam, Larson and his older brother, Largo, travel to the city of Pallisade where the two immerse themselves in hard labor. After Largo decides to make another move to a nearby port town and leaves his younger brother, a werewolf attacks Pallisade, and Larson joins a grizzled mercenary in the hunt for the beast.