Night Winds

Kane, the mystic swordsman, moves through both the world and the ages to face dark forces. Each trip follows the trail of old battles he has fought, and people who have met him remember him for good and ill.

He returns to a shattered city where only half-human survivors remain, led by a young foundling they treat as their queen. Elsewhere he visits a scorched tavern, where a woman he once betrayed keeps his child under the Devil's claim. He also descends into a subterranean realm of giants, where the splendor of a fallen civilization lies waiting to be uncovered, and he reaches the dwelling of Death, where he goes to bring back a woman who loves him.

For Kane, past, present and future are not separate. The novel is set across many centuries, and its sword-and-sorcery adventures lean toward the horrific.