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Valkyrie. Darquesse. Stephanie. The world ain’t big enough for the three of them. The end will come.... The War of the Sanctuaries has been won, but it was not without its casualties. Following the loss of Valkyrie Cain, Skulduggery Pleasant must use any and all means to track down and stop Darquesse before she turns the world into a charred, lifeless cinder. And so he draws together a team of soldiers, monster hunters, killers, criminals...and Valkyrie’s own murderous reflection.

War has finally come. But it's not a war between good and evil or light and dark - it's a war between Sanctuaries. For too long, the Irish Sanctuary has teetered on the brink of world-ending disaster, and the other Sanctuaries around the world have had enough. Allies turn to enemies, friends turn to foes, and Skulduggery and Valkyrie must team up with the rest of the Dead Men if they're going to have any chance at all of maintaining the balance of power and getting to the root of a vast conspiracy that has been years in the making.

Across the land, normal people are suddenly developing wild and unstable powers. Infected by a rare strain of magic, they are unwittingly endangering their own lives and the lives of the people around them. Terrified and confused, their only hope lies with the Sanctuary. Skulduggery Pleasant and Valkyrie Cain are needed now more than ever. And then there’s the small matter of Kitana. A normal teenage girl who, along with her normal teenage friends, becomes infected. Becomes powerful. Becomes corrupted.

War is coming. To avert catastrophe, Skulduggery and Valkyrie are sent on a secret mission that takes them away from everything they know, to a forsaken land of magic and grim, unrelenting terror. It is here that Valkyrie will have to fight the hardest - not only against the enemies who want her dead, but also against her own self-destructive impulses. It's only by crawling through darkness that she'll be able to once again stand in the light....

Serienurknall in der Hölle! Wir befinden uns im Jahr 1703 in der Toskana. Dort hält sich gerade Skulduggerys Erzwidersacher Mevolent auf. An diesem wollen er und die Toten Männer sich endlich rächen, doch dann taucht der irische Großmagier Meritorius auf, der ihnen genau das Gegenteil aufträgt: Sie sollen Mevolent vor dem Attentäter Arbor Strickent beschützen. Denn Mevolent ist der einzige Zauberer, der die Porta dell‘ Inferno, einen Zugang zur Hölle, in dem eine zerstörerische Gottheit lauert, wieder schließen kann. Deshalb muss er am Leben bleiben - erst einmal.