[Master of Malice 01] • The Scarecrow

Pure evil rises once again in Albia... Three years have passed since Baron Reen's trial. A terrible accident on the island of his exile has transformed him into a nightmarish scarecrow creature with dark, mysterious powers. Staging his own suicide, Reen breaks free of his prison and, with the help of the former queen Sofira, embarks on a ruthless quest for vengeance against his worst enemy, the woman responsible for the overthrow of his schemes and his own ruination: Brynne Sullyan. Sullyan is tasked with investigating Reen's suicide. The missing body and a series of disasters in Port Loxton-a vicious murder, a brutal ambush, and a devastating fire-raise suspicions in her mind. She probes deeper, determined to uncover the truth, unsuspecting of the evil that's about to be unleashed...