Banished from his village for no apparent reason, Farmer Elidan and his family seek a fresh start on a dike farm at the Nostrian coast, but his fortunes take a turn for the worse and he suffers one setback after another. His neighbors begin avoiding him amid growing rumors of a curse upon the farm.
The heroes arrive in time to prevent a tragedy, and they soon make a gruesome discovery on the farm as the curse appears to strike again! Now the heroes may have only a few days to solve the mystery of the dike farm and save Elidan’s life. Fate throws many obstacles in their path—a beautiful and capricious witch, a community of superstitious farmers, and a longship full of Thorwalian raiders—but one thing is certain: a poorly maintained dike is all that stands between Elidan’s farm and the pitiless sea…