'He's insisting he's a tide Lord and he's begging us to try again...to kill him, that is.' When a routine hanging goes wrong, the survivor announces he is Cayal the Immortal Prince, a tide Lord. However, the only known record of the immortal beings of Amyrantha is the tide Lord tarot...and everyone knows it is just a parlor-game, an amusement. Arkady Desean, an expert on the legends of the Crasii, a part-animal, part-human race, is sent to interrogate Cayal. But, in exposing this would-be immortal, Arkady's own web of deceit threatens to unravel. Nothing is really, as it seems around the Immortal Prince. The lies seem plausible, his stories improbable...and the truth is more than any of them bargained for.
