The four heroic young Forest Guard recruits embark on their last mission to recover the lost Books of History before the Dark One enleashes their power to enslave humanity.

As the land of the Forest Dwellers is increasingly decimated by the Horde, Thomas Hunter, supreme commander of the Forest Guard, chooses four sixteen-year-old recruits for a special mission--to find the seven lost Books of History that have power over the past, present, and future.

Five years after leaving home, Johnis, Silvie, and Darsal return to find that the Horde has taken over Middle. Thomas and the rest of the Forest Guard have gone into hiding, and a strange new force has begun challenging everything they thought they knew.

The feared Blue Lady, Kitiara, sets in motion a plot that will take three Solamnic knights to Icereach in search of a dragon orb, and her rival Laurana begins a journey toward destiny when she and Sturm, Flint, and Tasslehoff join the knights in their perilous quest. But it is Kitiara who faces the crucial test. She vows to spend the night in the most feared place on Krynn--Dargaard Keep. No one who ventures into that dread place ever returns....

As the Dragon Highlords vie for the Crown of Power in the Temple of the Dark Queen, Black Robe wizard Raistlin Majere wages his own desperate battle against Takhisis in the dungeons below and meets again the brother he betrayed. The fate of the world hangs in the balance.

The Seven Sleepers visit Pleasure Island and find that everything is not pleasure there, as a mysterious new friend may have more in mind for them than a vacation.

The Seven Sleepers must confront an evil king whose sport is to offer the prisoners in his dungeon one chance at freedom by escaping past his savage hunting dogs.

The Seven Sleepers try to stop the evil Dr. Korbo, whose country is filled with awful, unnatural beasts.

When the kingdom of Madria receives a rumor that the Zorians may attack with a secret weapon, possibly under the direction of the Dark Lord, the Seven Sleepers become involved.