Though they've managed to save Wulfgar's body from captivity in the Abyss, Drizzt and his companions come to realize that a part of the barbarian's soul may have been left behind--but all they can do is let Wulfgar take his own path. And that path will take him to the bottom of a bottle, into the arms of a woman, through the windswept reaches of the Spine of the World, and to a new life as a father.