After the Redhorn disaster Elrohir chases the enemy rashly, alienating brother and friend alike until Aragorn asks his help tracking a missing courier; but when they find the courier, slain, in the Redhorn's shadow, Elrohir must confront secrets and demons long-buried before an ancient evil destroys all he still holds dear.

SPOILERS for the last book. Estranged old friends draw new boundaries and renew old ones in their relationship as the season wanes. A year before her death, Lily Potter and Severus Snape finally reach their permanent parting of the ways.

After a hard-won peace following the War of Wrath, Elrond fights a new battle between duty and desire as the dark begins to stir again in Middle-earth.

Sometimes choices must be made for good or ill. In the years after the Lamentation, Morwen finds herself facing the hardest of all.

War makes for strange bedfellows, as does grief. Two survivors of the Battle of Five Armies, who fought each other before they fought their enemies, try to make sense of the aftermath and the losses they share.