Drizzt Do'Urden finds his friends have left him in Icewind Dale as they go to save Mithril Hall. While he tries to find out why, a settlement of strange surface elves appears in Icewind Dale. Are they friends or are they enemies to Ten-Towns?

When Drizzt returns to Ice Wind Dale he finds that Ten-Towns is in trouble. A new threat has come to the frozen tundra. With a mysterious new friends help Drizzt may just have a chance to save the towns.

Drizzt has hung up his scimitars for the last time and his years of fighting are behind him now, but when an old enemy he thought killed returns does he have the heart to fight once more?