Nick and his brother Alan are on the run with their mother, who was once the lover of a powerful magician. When she left him, she stole an important charm amulet - and he will stop at nothing to reclaim it. Now Alan has been marked with the sign of death by the magician`s demon, and only Nick can save him. But to do so he must face those he has fled from all his life - the magicians - and kill them. So the hunted becomes the but in saving his brother, Nick discovers something that will unravel his whole